Quotes About Condition

But when we pray, genuinely pray, the real condition of our heart is revealed. This is as it should be. This is when God truly begins to work with us. The adventure is just beginning.

The first and most obvious understanding of education comes from the fact that anyone who can not tell Reason from rubbish is not yet in a condition to know that he can not tell Reason from rubbish, a disability, which, you would suppose, can hardly be one of those put forth as education. But it is.

Like alcoholism, depression is a lifelong condition that can be cured only by a deliberate effort to change our selves.

The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart.

He had sensory processing disorder—something we didn't know about back then—and was highly sensitive to smells.

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord. His presence makes any condition comfortable.

Unwilling to accept the idea of a class struggle, he was nonetheless aware of the deteriorating condition of labor, and so he embraced a protective tariff, anathema to the liberals, as a way to protect wages.

the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy—in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil—and

The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.

The ideal of toleration sounds like a formal condition allowing all flowers to bloom, but it turns out on examination to adumbrate a determinate form of life no less intrusive than the Sharia or "fundamentalist" Christianity.

We say the poison is in the dose. The same herb that can relieve a condition can also kill a patient if the dose be too large. And sometimes the efficacious does is large, so near the lethal dose, we have to work by very small increments to avoid taking a life.

Death is the general condition. Life is the exception: a beautiful, love-filled exception.

The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

I must note here that even among us the process of the hardening, the crystallization of life has evidently not been completed; there are still some steps to be ascended before we reach the ideal. The ideal (clearly) is the condition where nothing happens any more.

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

Suffering is not an objective condition in the outside world. It is a mental reaction generated by my own mind.

though gods can inspire us to act compassionately, religious faith is not a necessary condition for moral behavior.

Homo sapiens is just not built for satisfaction. Human happiness depends less on objective conditions and more on our own expectations.

Conversely, the greatest sin would be to block the dataflow. What is death, if not a condition in which information doesn't flow?

find yourself suffering from some "medical condition

Fear is a disease of the mind we inherit from society