Quotes About Grasped

I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata.

Christians swim in metaphor like fish in the sea. Spiritual formation requires some measure of analogical or imaginative ability, since we are, after all, dealing with an invisible God who can't be humanly grasped except in comparison to things that are, well, humanly grasped.

Barbara stumbled, and, for a brief second, took my arm. It was then, perhaps, that a force was released, no less powerful for its action proving somewhat delayed; for emotions of that kind are not always immediately grasped.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

My heart sometimes feels like it will burst for them both. The love has a strange fleeting intangibility about it and seems always to disappear and be converted into the past even before I have properly grasped it.

Here, baby. Here's a towel." She reached back, unable to face the man, and grasped the towel he handed her. Of course, it was a dish towel and not much good.

Like so many works that have had a great impact on human thinking, it makes points that, once they are grasped, have a ring of almost self-evident truth; yet they are still blindly ignored by a disconcertingly large proportion of people who should know better.

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

The mystic feels as if his own will were in abeyance, and indeed sometimes as if he were grasped and held by a superior power." This sense of having temporarily surrendered to a superior force often leaves the person feeling as if he or she has been permanently transformed.

Wisdom is an absolute positivism which regards only what can be grasped by direct experience as real, and everything else as unreal, abstract, and illusory.

I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me.

He had brought home to her, and always by remarks that were really quite soundless, the conception, hitherto ungrapsed, of some complete use of her wealth itself, some use of it as a counter-move to fate.

No one valued the given heart, no one saw that sacrifice for the precious gift it was. No, just a thing to be grasped, twisted by uncaring hands, then wrung dry and discarded.

Perhaps they had grasped that the doors could not be closed, and new doors would continue to open, and they had understood that the denial of coexistence would have required one party to cease to exist, and the extinguishing party too would have been transformed in the process, and too many native parents would not after have been able to look their children in the eye, to speak with head held high of what their generation had done.

The core of an individual is the mystery of life, which dies when it is 'grasped'. That is also why symbols want to keep their secrets.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

at this point, we must refocus our attention on this, as fear is what defines human existence, ...you will see that fear is the deepest element that can be grasped in this organic and inorganic world, and there's nothing else other than fear, because nothing else bears within it such dreadful strength

It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.

What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Kate grasped her small handbag and pulled a small blue vial and threw it into the grinding mass. It shattered harmlessly, causing two creatures to pause with a look of confusion. What is that potion? Simon asked. Kate stared as the two undead things began to shuffle forward again. She glanced into her purse. Damn it! That was my perfume.

The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

In response, Habakkuk wrote one of the greatest expressions of faith in all of Scripture. He finally grasped what God was up to. He was using the wicked to discipline those who were his own in order to bring about godly sorrow and full repentance.