Quotes About Capacity

Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This makes our ending place—and everything in between—possessing an inherent capacity for goodness, truth, and beauty.

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more it is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for, the very One who created you.

Shadowy material resides inside each one of us, but the man who is willing to face his own capacity for darkness will discover his deepest inner goodness and the presence of the divine within him. Some men never discover the divine presence within because they can't bring themselves to face their demons. Don't try to engineer this process or manufacture any angels. It will be done to you; just do not hate or fear the falling.

Jesus seems to often find love in people who might not have received much love themselves. Perhaps their deep longing for it became their capacity to both receive it and give it.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

A little secret, Magnus. There is no good and evil. There's only capable and incapable. I am capable.

Only people who have known great pain have the capacity to learn magic.

When energy is profoundly dissipated, the ability to think is clearly eroded, and the capacity to actively engage in the efforts and pleasures of life is fundamentally altered, then depression becomes an illness rather than a temporary or existential state.

With his capacity for flight came grimmer moods, and the blackness of his depressions filled the air as pervasively as music did in his better periods. Within a year or so of moving to California, my father's moods were further blackening, and I felt helpless to affect them.

The war, ghastly as it was, represented no more than "an awkward window in Man's evolution" when for a few years our technical progress had run ahead of our organisational capacities.

Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.

Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.

todo el mundo tenía sus limitaciones.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

To do something is in every man's power.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

He can do most who has most power.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.