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Quotes About Formation

Evangelism is not mere initiation into a relationship with God but the formation of a community within a narrative that is not yet complete.
~ James W. Thompson
the trees began to form
~ Jan Karon
The method of forming men to virtue by example, is, of all others, the shortest, the most easy, and the best adapted to all circumstances and dispositions.
~ Alban Butler
They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many of their citizens were bleeding, and when the progress of hostility and desolation left little room for those calm and mature inquiries and reflections which must ever precede the formation of a wise and well-balanced government for a free people.
~ Alexander Hamilton
'Tis education forms the common mind:Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
~ Alexander Pope
I never really thought I'd have the opportunity to run this business. It's an industry I grew up in. I watched EDS being formed in our living room at night.
~ Ross Perot, Jr.
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
~ Gabriel Lippmann
To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.
~ Gregory Benford
In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.
~ Neri Oxman
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
~ William Shakespeare
The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
~ Edith Stein
It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.
~ Debra Fischer
There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.
~ Debra Fischer
That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.
~ Simon Le Bon
The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Roy Hodgson is a fantastic coach. I first knew him when I was playing in Switzerland and he was national team coach. It was under him that Switzerland revolutionised their player formation system.
~ Joachim Low
El yo se forma a través de dinámicas de interacción entre sujetos que se reconocen, se aprueban, se critican, se pelean, se aman o se odian.
~ Remo Bodei
Action flows from character, but character is not so much a matter of innate disposition as of training in the ways of righteousness. Those who respond to Jesus' preaching and submit to his instruction will find themselves formed in a new way so that their actions will, as it were, "naturally" be wise and righteous.
~ Richard B. Hays
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
~ Richard Henry Lee
Identity formation and Big Five personality factors among plants rights activists." "Or: Who does the tree-hugger really hug, when he hugs a tree?
~ Richard Powers
He calls it speleogenesis by elephants—the creation of a cave by elephants.
~ Richard Preston
Or could it be that there is something about globalisation itself that produces local culture, and promotes the constant formation of new forms of local identity, dress, cuisine, music, dance and language?
~ Richard R. Wilk
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
~ Richard Rohr
Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you.
~ Richard Rohr