Quotes About Foundation

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

Love is the one eternal thing and takes away your foundational fear of death. This is very good stuff.

Until you meet a benevolent God and a benevolent universe, until you realize that the foundation of all is love, you will not be at home in this world.

it is very surprising to me that so many Christians who read the Scriptures do not see this. Yet maybe they cannot answer a second call because they have not yet completed the first task. Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

The Genesis story of the Judeo–Christian Tradition is really quite extraordinary. It says that we originate from free and overflowing love. This flow will be rediscovered and re-experienced by various imperfect people throughout the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. This sets us on a positive and hopeful foundation, which cannot be overstated.

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

A bed is where a sense of shared purpose first takes root.

Scranton describing Sen. Robert A. Taft's conservatism as compared to Goldwater's said Taft was a conservative in the truest sense of the word. He sought to conserve all the human values that have been carried down to us on a long stream of American history. He saw history as the foundation on which a better future might be built, not a Technicolor fantasy behind which the problems of the present might be concealed.

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

This is the Propylon. He waved toward a stone path lined with crumbling columns. One of the main gates into the Olympic valley. Rubble! said Leo And over there - Frank pointed to a square foundation that looked like the patio for a Mexican restaurant - is the Temple of Hera, one of the oldest structures here. More rubble! Leo said. And that round bandstand-looking thing - that's the Philipeon, dedicated to Philip of Macedonia. Even more rubble! First rate rubble!

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

I want to build some thing permanent.

You must begin with God.

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment. These ideas are the foundation of purpose-driven living.

Nothing will change permanently until you dig down to the bedrock of truth about your life and God's purpose for it.

The first book that really appealed to Jack told the whole history of the world from the Creation to the founding of Kingsbridge Priory, and when he finished it he felt he knew everything that had ever happened.

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God.