Quotes About Conception

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

Just as is child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.