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Quotes About Form

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
~ Gwendoline Christie
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Though thirty spokes may form the wheel, it is the hole within the hub which gives the wheel utility. It is not the clay the potter throws, which gives the pot its usefulness, but the space within the shape, from which the pot is made. Without a door, the room cannot be entered, and without its windows it is dark Such is the utility of non-existence.212
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Though thirty spokes may form the wheel, it is the hole within the hub which gives the wheel utility. It is not the clay the potter throws, which gives the pot its usefulness, but the space within the shape, from which the pot is made. Without a door, the room cannot be entered, and without its windows it is dark Such is the utility of non-existence.212 A
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Millennials, often told they have received the finest education available anywhere, have actually suffered a form of serious intellectual and moral neglect.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
We'll need you to unlock your desk, sir." "Sorry," Dreyfuss said. "Not until I've read this form." "You haven't…looked at it." "And I'm a very slow reader. Sometimes I wonder if I'm dyslexic.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Now God refused to come down to earth in the form of potato-flour; that was an undeniable, indisputable fact.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies that are diverse in form and color.
~ Jose Marti
You can ask other qualifying questions, but ask only 3–5. We used to have a 3-page questionnaire with 17 questions, and many users failed to complete the form. We had success with a chatbot asking one question at a time. Users will get anxious if they have to scroll and complete a big form.
~ Joseph Anderson
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
~ Joseph Conrad
Style has been classified in different ways, but it admits of so many designations that it is very hard to enumerate a table. In fact there are as many styles as there are writers, for no two authors write exactly after the same form. However, we may classify the styles of the various authors in broad divisions as (1) dry, (2) plain, (3) neat, (4) elegant, (5) florid, (6) bombastic.
~ Joseph Devlin
The matter of a Sacrament remains within the sphere of its determined species as long as it retains, in the popular estimation, its peculiar properties, while the form remains specifically unchanged as long as the logical and theological sense of the formula is preserved intact. Alterations, ad ditions or omissions which do not run counter to this prin ciple are to be regarded as merely accidental changes.
~ Joseph Pohle
Hence, if one places an obstacle to sacramental grace, 4 he receives the Sacra ment unworthily, but the Sacrament itself is not invalid; it is valid but lacking its proper form (validum et in-forme).
~ Joseph Pohle
According to Catholic teaching the remote matter of Baptism is natural water; its proximate matter is the act of external washing; while the sacramental form is con tained in the words: " I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
~ Joseph Pohle
The confectio of a Sacrament, i. e. the combina tion of matter and form into the sacramental sign, is not necessarily of itself a sacramental act, but indifferent and ambiguous, inasmuch as the minister, being a free agent, may act with any one of a number of different purposes, e. g., to practice, to play a joke, to make a mockery of religious ceremonies, etc. It depends entirely on his free will whether what he does is intended as a
~ Joseph Pohle
In case of necessity, not only a priest or a deacon, but a lay man or woman, nay even a pagan and a heretic, can [validly] baptize, provided only that he observes the form prescribed by the Church and has the intention of doing what the Church does.
~ Joseph Pohle
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
~ Joseph Ratzinger
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
~ Joseph Ratzinger
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
For Riegl the primary level of facts was not style itself (the morphology), nor even the sequence of objects, but the Kunstwollen of an epoch, just as for Wölfflin it was the form of seeing.
~ Erwin Panofsky
What Berry sees in his farm as a form, I see in Scripture as a form. Think of the farm as an organic whole, but with boundaries so that you are aware and stay in touch with all the interrelations: the house and barn, the horses and the chickens, the weather of sun and rain, the food prepared in the house and the work done in the fields, the machinery and the tools, the seasons. There are steady, relaxed rhythms in place.
~ Eugene H. Peterson