Quotes About Lack

The Church is perishing today through the lack of thinking, not through an excess of it.

This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let your attention wander for a moment!

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

Vann also came to realize something else. As offensive as the lack of cultural awareness in the office was, part of that deficit was his own. They didn't understand him, but he didn't understand them, either.

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

In fact, a lack of randomness denotes an abysmal spirit.

This is because fears often partly originate from a subconscious reaction to a poor plan or a lack of a plan (this is also where procrastination comes from).

The trouble seemed to be the lack of experience among the officers, which led them after a certain time to simply quit, without being particularly whipped, but because they had fought enough.

Free speech doesn't overthrow governments," answered the other. "It's the lack of free speech.

This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had shown during Stalin's life, when they had been so supremely worshipful of his mind and strength of will, of his foresight and genius. Their hysterical worship of Stalin and their total and unconditional rejection of him sprang from the same soil.

Snow is a poor substitute for soil

with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children.

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

The feeling of unworthiness or that something is missing in our life is often at the root of excessive busy-ness and striving and therefore at the root of stress. By being very busy or working very hard, we often try to compensate for such feelings of lack. Alternately, we might seek love and approval from others or compulsively try to fix and improve ourselves.

This egoic sense of lack creates a feeling of having a problem that needs to be fixed, which the ego is glad to offer advice about. The thoughts in your mind send you here and there, trying to fix a problem that only exists in your mind. The fact that other people's minds might agree that you have a problem doesn't make an imaginary problem real, but their agreement does make imaginary problems seem real.

Everyone is busy trying to fix their perceived problems and trying to get what they believe they lack and therefore what they believe they need to be safe and happy. This sense of lack drives the greed that has been so damaging to many and to the earth.

wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

My progress report concerning my journey to the palace of wisdom is discouraging. I lack certain indispensable aptitudes. Furthermore, it appears that I packed the wrong things.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.