Gehorsamkeit Quotes & Sayings

And if (as I said before) what we are matters even more than what we do - if, indeed, what we do matters chiefly as evidence of what we are - then it follows that the change which I most need to undergo is a change that my own direct, voluntary efforts cannot bring about. And this applies to my good actions too. How many of them were done for the right motive? How many for fear of public opinion, or a desire to show off? How many from a sort of obstinacy or sense of superiority which, in different circumstances, might equally have led to some very bad act? But I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself new motives. After the first few steps in the Christian life we realise that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God. — C.S. Lewis

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us. — Marvin Hamlisch

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy! — Beverly L. Kaye

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually. — Scott Ellis

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out. — Aristippus

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there. — Drew Gilpin Faust

Ministry's not an option for a Christian; it's a privilege. — Lori Hatcher

The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect. — Proclus