Quotes About Absolute

The sovereignty of God is absolute; yet it is never exercised in condemning men who ought to be saved, but rather, it has resulted in salvation of men who deserved to be lost.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love'

The life absolute from which has sprung all that is felt, seen, and perceived, and into which all again merges in time, is a silent, motionless and eternal life which among the Sufis is called Zat. Every motion that springs forth from this silent life is a vibration and a creator of vibrations. Within one vibration are created many vibrations.

Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

La luz, la divinidad, la pose absoluta, donde por la mañana, en camas revueltas, en susurros, se te presenta la vida.

By revealing that there is no external solution to the contradiction of being, the absolute tells us that we can no longer hope for relief from the trauma of history. This is the point when contradiction makes itself manifest as irreducible and when politics becomes unavoidable.

Though Hegel constructs a totalizing system, its airtight structure does not produce a perfectly harmonious whole in which nothing is out of place. Instead, the totality renders visible the ontological necessity of contradiction. This is the reason that Hegel insists on thinking the absolute idea... on their own, particulars create the illusion of the possibility of avoiding contradiction. This is, for Hegel, the great danger of the failure to think absolutely.

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

JACK. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON. We have. JACK. I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON. The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course. JACK. What fools!

God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.

Early on, I had contracted that dread affliction of oldest or only children -- I lived for the absolute approval of my parents.

and the night became another of those islands in time, suspended somewhere in the heart or in the memory, intact and absolute.

In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist.

Inspiring all Holmes's championship of free expression was his seeking spirit, his doubt that he or anyone had an avenue to the absolute. The great act of faith, he wrote to his friend William James (who hardly needed the advice), is when man decides that he is not God. On his ninetieth birthday he was still reminding young men that his discovery I was not God was his secret of success.

the Lankavatara Sutra transmitted by Bodhidharma, declared: "There is not a trace of the absolute outside of reality.

The state of nirvana infuses all of samsara, and the absolute is found in reality

unless we fall into the nets of the sects, increasingly hidden yet existing everywhere to channel our dreams of the absolute into a sad alienation from our fundamental freedom.

The value of land, like the value of a life, is unreckonable and absolute.

Our minds were driven out of the old boundaries into the thought of absolute loss, absolute emptiness, in a world that seemed larger even than the sky that held it.

I could convince future storytellers, Father, that what guided you was the desire for beauty and greatness, a thirst for the absolute. It doesn't really matter where it leads us; we all decide what we want to keep in our bag, rags or riches. The truth is not always pretty or merciful. •

In place of the Absolute as determining history through the Zeitgeist, Marx offered mass movements and economic forces as the basic causes of every fundamental change, whether in the world of things or in the life of thought. Hegel, the imperial professor, had hatched the socialistic eggs.

It has been the one song of those who thirst after absolute power that the interest of the state requires that its affairs should be conducted in secret . . . .