Thomas Aquinas Quotes

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

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• My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • God
  • Know
  • Wealth

• I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Live
  • Power
  • Nature

• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Picture

• If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • God
  • Plan
  • Someone

• I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Think
  • Hear

• Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen -; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • World
  • Nature

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?

  

  Paracelsus
  • School
  • Nature
  • Enemy

• 'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Joy
  • Selfish

• Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • God
  • Why
  • Game

• Only by presupposing God's prior and inconceivable forgiveness can the limitations of human good will be transcended, and only thus can the danger of human pride be avoided.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Good
  • God
  • Pride

• Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

  

  Edward Young
  • Nature
  • Sleep
  • Sweet

• Sparrow: Oh my God. I'm a trained professional. I can't believe I didn't see it sooner! The mind games... the use of isolation... the accusations about being unfaithful... the obsessive keeping track... preventing the other person from getting a job... Stuart, we're in an abusive relationship with the Bush administration!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• The laws of certain states …give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property…. But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty-and when the captor in war …thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Nature

• To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

  

  Albert Gubay
  • God
  • Money
  • Promise

• Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

  

  Dick York
  • God
  • She
  • Wall

• The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

  

  Elizabeth Montgomery
  • God
  • Want
  • Kind

• Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.

  

  Brian Sandoval

• The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • History
  • Vision

• Our new concept of just power argues that the promotion of justice should be the aim of modern statecraft, not for altruistic reasons, but because it is the only sustainable way that states can promote progress and stability in a globalised world.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • Power
  • Justice

• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Survive

• Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
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  • Nature
  • Existence