Contingencies Quotes

• When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Events
  • Actions

• The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.

  

  Michael Feldman
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Radio

• The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Conditions
  • Description
  • Contingencies

• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Regard
  • Machine
  • Purposes

• From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Change
  • Glory