Spheres Quotes

Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

In order to effectively interlock with higher spheres of mind and attention, you must have tremendous balance and control. You learn that it is more fun to have control than not to.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

You can turn the sphere for a cutting point, but if you're really just existing in the 180, cutting is much easier. If you're existing in a 360 space, it gets more complex.

Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.

One must not politicize science. But the converse is not necessarily true. There's no reason why scientists can not go into the public sphere. In fact, I would argue they should.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome each constraint.