Quotes About Formation

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

Without the federal ratio, Hamilton glumly concluded, "no union could possibly have been formed." Indeed, the whole superstructure erected in Philadelphia rested on that unstable, undemocratic foundation.

If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action would become charged with importance--it is not improbable that it would result in the formation of a society.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

The two chief weapons which parties use in order to ensure success are the public press and the formation of associations.

The purpose of spiritual direction groups is formation . Spiritual formation is a process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others. The intentional goal of group spiritual direction is to help each participant become more aware of God in their lives, for the sake of others.

Your anxiety attach in the church sounds like a compromise formation. A what? Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocense. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. So the compromise is anxiety.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

Philip Nation is right when he says the foundational truth of discipleship is this: "Love is the central discipline of the Christian life. Everything else will flow from that as the centerpiece of spiritual formation.

If we are to begin to push back against this, we have to understand how meditating on God's Word is central to worldview formation.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.

There must be some definite cause why, whenever snow begins to fall, its initial formation invariably displays the shape of a six-cornered starlet. For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall just as well with five corners or with seven? . . . Who carved the nucleus, before it fell, into six horns of ice? —From "On the Six-Cornered Snowflake," by Johannes Kepler, 1610

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

I focused on how these people became how they were.

It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.