Quotes About View

Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Your outlook on life depends on how you perceive it and those around you.

Nothing is more simplistic than doggedly holding onto the accidental view of major world events.

We have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.

Taoists view any attempt to describe the totality of nature, the Tao, as futile. They found it far more useful to find ways of experiencing deeper harmony with it.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Her blue, almond-shaped eyes - now even more elongated - had altered in appearance; they were indeed of the same colour, but seemed to have passed into a liquid state. So much so that, when she closed them, it was as though a pair of curtains had been drawn to shut out a view of the sea.

From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine's room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel bars of gold.

From some points of view, the demonic is not that which hides in the shadows, but lives among us, is us, in every choice we make and don't make.

From the time we know the Lord, and are bound to him by the cords of love and gratitude — the two chief points we should have in our view, I apprehend, are, to maintain communion with him in our own souls, and to glorify him in the sight of men.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

The real view that we may have of Christ and His glory in this world comes through faith in the divine revelation of Scripture.

You know, if chickens had government and church and history, they would take a distant and distasteful view of human joy. Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.

I am indebted to Alan Wallace for the view of the Buddha as a great scientist, and for the metaphor of the telescope and the need to stabilize and calibrate it before viewing.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

The more clear your view, the more real beauty you will see. Always new. Always fresh. And each new emotion is a new discovery of yourself.

Sometimes You Need To Look At Life From A Different Perspective

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.

We experience in our sleep many instances of Pity, like the different pietàs of the Renaissance, but unlike them ours are not carved in marble but evanescent. They have their value, however, which is to keep us in touch with a certain kinder, more humane view of things that is only too easily submerged in the chilly, even hostile good sense of the waking state.

Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.