Embraced In Comfort Quotes & Sayings

An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else. — Tullian Tchividjian

Even when I wasn't looking for Jimmy, there was a huge empty mouth waiting inside the doors of all those clubs. It was in almost every face, and every heartless electronic song. Just because it beats like one doesn't make it a heart. — Trebor Healey

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured. — Cassandra Clare

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak? — Jeff Deck

U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics. — Enrique Pena Nieto

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE embraced not just the Blank Slate and the Noble Savage but the third member of the trinity, the Ghost in the Machine. The declaration that we can change what we don't like about ourselves became a watchword of social science. But that only raises the question "Who or what is the 'we'?" If the "we" doing the remaking are just other hunks of matter in the biological world, then any malleability of behavior we discover would be cold comfort, because we, the molders, would be biologically constrained and therefore might not mold people, or allow ourselves to be molded, in the most socially salutary way. A ghost in the machine is the ultimate liberator of human will - including the will to change society - from mechanical causation. — Steven Pinker

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets. — Theodore Sturgeon

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God. — Ray Comfort

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God. — Ray Comfort