Quotes About Formation

Keiner dieser Aufsätze beabsichtigt, die Materialität des Körpers zu bestreiten; sie stellen vielmehr partielle und sich überschneidende genealogische Bemühungen dar, die normativen Bedingungen zu klären, unter denen die Materialität des Körpers gestaltet und gebildet wird, und insbesondere, wie sie durch differentielle Kategorien des Geschlechts gebildet wird.

Materie ist immer etwas zur Materie Gewordenes.

It is a measure of our enculturation that the various acts of ministry (for example, counseling, administration, even liturgy) have taken on lives and functions of their own rather than being seen as elements of the one prophetic ministry of formation and reformation of alternative community.

The good effects that we popularly ascribe to "self-control" are, it seems, more accurately captured by situational control.24 The studies and stories just cited established this mechanism, a mechanism that will undergird every part of habit formation.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Everything is what it is because it got that way.

Fiz as perguntas erradas, não perguntas para formação de heróis, mas sim sobre como poderia ser o herói.

the Romans were one of the first to also place leaders behind their men in an open order of battle.

from the barracks burst bandsmen in their hundreds. Each was armed, as I had seen before, but now some were quite more armed than others.

Christian spiritual formation requires that we actively and continually receive from God. We need to be extraordinary consumers of grace; we need to receive his words of love and correction, his forgiveness, his affirmation, his life, and the list goes on. Without receiving from God, there is no true formation.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

If spiritual formation is the purpose of the church, then personal transformation should intentionally be the purpose of the small group ministry. Bible study is great. Fellowship is wonderful. Evangelism is essential. But changing and growing to be more like Christ should be the purpose of the small group ministry.

Here the art of weaving pertains not simply to the art of combining and separating words, but to language formation as such, to what occurs as the generative function of language that mirrors the "becoming of being.

Nature is full of examples of these odd biological relationships. Sometimes we never know how they truly formed and lump the explanation into the category: Life finds a way.

American philosopher William James wrote of the mysterious formation of identity, "that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely alive and active. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, 'This is the real me!

they develop slowly, beneath the surface—like a subcutaneous abscess.

We were made at the motel.

As Tertullian put it around AD 200, "Christians are made, not born." 4

In this chapter and the next, I will contend that the Christians' habitus was formed patiently, unhurriedly, through careful catechesis as well as through the communities' reflexive behavior, and that it was renewed in the regular worship of the Christian assemblies.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

I don't like getting pinned back with a line of four in midfield. You risk losing too much space.

The better side of Wall Street is when it is acting as an efficient mechanism of capital formation and capital flow, which helps businesses invest.