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Quotes About Foundation

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance.
~ bell hooks
Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception.
~ bell hooks
One of the most important social myths we must debunk if we are to become a more loving culture is the one that teaches parents that abuse and neglect can coexist with love. Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love.
~ bell hooks
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.
~ bell hooks
Boys need healthy self-esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them.
~ bell hooks
One of the most important social myths we must debunk if we are to become a more loving culture is the one that teaches parents that abuse and neglect can coexist with love. Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. Yet parents do this al the time in our culture. Children are told that they are loved even though they are being abused.
~ bell hooks
Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty
~ bell hooks
If we succeed without confronting and changing shaking foundation of low self-esteem rooted in contempt of hatred, we will falter along the way.
~ bell hooks
When someone has not known love it is difficult for him to trust that mutual satisfaction and growth can be the primary foundation in a coupling relationship.
~ bell hooks
without a core foundation of healthy self-esteem we can't practice self love.
~ bell hooks
In reality, we were demanding that we look at the status of females realistically, and that realistic understanding serve as the foundation for a real feminist politic. Our intent was not to diminish the vision of sisterhood. We sought to put in place a concrete politics of solidarity that would make genuine sisterhood possible.
~ bell hooks
the family is the primary school for love...
~ bell hooks
Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love.
~ bell hooks
WE LEARN ABOUT love in childhood. Whether our homes are happy or troubled, our families functional or dysfunctional, it's the original school of love.
~ bell hooks
The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without it there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object of all republican governments.
~ Benjamin Rush
In this province Sandoval laid the foundation of a town, which, by the desire of Cortes, he named Medellin, after the latter's native place, in Estremadura.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
~ Bertrand Russell
All our knowledge, both knowledge of things and knowledge of truths, rests upon acquaintance (connaitre, kennen) as its foundation
~ Bertrand Russell
We pitch our tents of brick on the tremulous soil of a dark, scary world.
~ Beth Moore
Christ warns that the only indestructible house is the one built upon the rock of His teachings. The strength of our houses is not dependent on our salvation. It's not dependent on our faith. It's dependent on our willingness to live according to God's Word.
~ Beth Moore
If we are going to believe God, our plumb line for measuring the accuracy of biblical concepts must be the Bible itself, not what we've seen or heard.
~ Beth Moore
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, in Christ; for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.
~ Beth Moore
Think of marriage as a three-legged stool. The legs are a submissive wife, a loving husband, and Christ.
~ Beth Moore
As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith. Colossians 2:6–7
~ Beth Moore