Conception Quotes

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Human life commences at the time of conception.

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.

We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

If life begins at conception, but you can be born again later, only to live on eternally after death, what's the big deal about anything?

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.