Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Quotes

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Determine
  • Theology

• In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Reality
  • Order
  • Lives

• When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Men
  • Why
  • Soul

• . . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

  

  A. R. Bernard
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Quality

• Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

  

  Lily King
  • Relationship
  • Illusion
  • Disappoint

• Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Alcohol
  • Illusion
  • Sanity

• My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • People
  • World
  • Illusion

• God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • God
  • Help
  • Running

• It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Possible

• No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Love
  • Illusion

• If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Friendship

• As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Able
  • Illusion
  • Experts

• If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Freedom
  • Humans
  • Illusion

• I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Future
  • Past
  • Fear

• Our actions determine our dispositions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Actions
  • Determine
  • Dispositions

• I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Desire
  • Purpose
  • Tree

• People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away - in search of some location where we do feel at ease. While we're on this search, it doesn't occur to us to consider how or where we're going to end up. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

  

  Naoki Higashida
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Understand
  • Read
  • Fast

• You know, I think in Europe NASCAR is not regarded as high as it should.

  

  Juan Pablo Montoya
  • High
  • Should
  • NASCAR

• We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

  

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
  • Illusion
  • Determine