Quotes About Formation

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Finally, don't waste your suffering. Anxiety or depression can be occasions for formation or deformation, for becoming stronger in the long run or weaker. So do what you can—even if it's a baby step—to resolve to let all of this work together for your good.

what reality is formed into.

what it is formed into.

and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.

it is not the "I" that has desires, it is desire that forms and sustains the "I".

Already in the thirteenth century German cities were forming leagues for their mutual protection. Prominent among these were the Rhine League and the Hanseatic League

While we speak, new worlds are sparkling forth--suns are throwing off their nebulae--nebulae are hardening into worlds.

Everyone is in a process of spiritual formation. We are being shaped into either the wholeness of the image of Christ or a horribly destructive caricature of that image--destructive not only to ourselves but also to others, for we inflict our brokenness upon them . . . The direction of our spiritual growth infuses all we do with intimations of either Life or Death.

In this section we will develop a fourfold definition of spiritual formation as (1) a process (2) of being conformed (3) to the image of Christ (4) for the sake of others.

We are formed by what we desire

There are dark, hard, cherty silt-stones from some deep ocean trench full of rapidly accumulating Pennsylvanian guck.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

period in which the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms came into being.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed

Marriage is the natural means of forming a sphere, of taking root on the earth: it requires strength to do this without such an opening, very many have failed to this, and their imperfections have been in every one's way.

Everything in the material world is first created on the level of thought.

In other words, individual white citizens today, even anti-racist ones, can be very much against racism, even conquering visible marks of prejudice in their personal lives, and still tolerate prisons as the racist structural formation they exhibit in society with its long history of white supremacist social formation. Whatever

Plants removing carbon from the air is, in fact, how the earth's vast coal deposits were formed.

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.