Quotes About Position

Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.

The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;

We'll hardly be in a position to discover much if they know you are married to a policeman!" she pointed out. "Let alone the very policeman who is investigating the murders. Added to which, it will do no harm for the general to see you as still unmarried.

And my worst problem was laughter. I would go into fits of laughter and I couldn't stop. Anything could set me off. The sheer madness of my own position might set me off. This can still happen to me fairly easily. No loss, no pain, no deepening understanding of my predicament changes it. Something strikes me as funny. I begin to laugh and I can't stop.

Many of your fellow church members probably don't believe , either, but at least in church you put yourself in position for belief. Otherwise, you reduce the possibility.

said, 'Many of your fellow members probably don't believe, either, but at least in church you put yourself in position for belief. Otherwise you reduce the possibility.' " "Good point," Willa said thoughtfully. "Yes, it was a good point. But I'd given it sixty-some years by then and I figured any further developments were unlikely.

much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

Find a position on the map where you, and you alone, are the perfect answer. Overwhelm this group's wants and dreams and desires with your care, your attention, and your focus. Make change happen. Change that's so profound

The linchpins leverage something internal, not external, to create a position of power and value.

Our position in life should never determine our posture in service.

the men of these two outfits fought as if the outcome of the battle, and with it the war, depended on their valor: as indeed perhaps it did, since whoever had possession of this craggy height on the Union left would dominate the whole fishhook position. "The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks," Oates said later.

You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

There is no room for Judah's thinking that its position as the people of God means it will escape if its stance toward Yahweh is no different from theirs.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

But, then, he was the youngest child of four, stranded at the far side of a large family like a poorly used preposition at the end of a sentence.

respect is constantly earned, and shouldn't be assumed because of your position.

It writhed brightly, a spectrum of raveling colors, and then vanished and jumped position as the star resolved into view. Some distance away.