De Meester Belsele Quotes & Sayings

THE SECOND OBSERVATION CONCERNING the weak and small beginnings of grace is that Christ will not quench the smoking flax. This is so for two principal reasons. First, because this spark is from heaven: it is his own, it is kindled by his own Spirit. And secondly, it tends to the glory of his powerful grace in his children that he preserves light in the midst of darkness, a spark in the midst of the swelling waters of corruption. THE — Richard Sibbes

Rome was not built in one day. — John Heywood

I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness. — Walker Percy

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it. — Jeannette Walls

But what is love if the heart falls for someone else so fast? Was it real? — Marilyn Grey

How the mighty have fallen (2 Sam 1.19) — Bible English New International Version

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare. — Elon Musk

Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show. — Bruno Heller

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy. — Steve Jobs

We have to restore the meaning of the word 'love.' We have been using it in a careless way. When we say, 'I love hamburgers,' we are not talking about love. We are talking about our appetite, our desire for hamburgers. We should not dramatize our speech and misuse words like that. We make words like 'love' sick that way. We have to make an effort to heal our language by using words carefully. the word 'love' is a beautiful word. We have to restore its meaning (31). — Thich Nhat Hanh

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I am also doing something more standardly philosophical. But I view most of the book as an interweaving of philosophy and literary criticism. If that entails a broadening of a standard idea of philosophy, it's a broadening I'd like to see happen. — Philip Kitcher