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Quotes About Whole

The prayer type of religions are characterized by the idea that the Whole (God) exists outside the one who prays. In the meditation type, the individual is regarded as primarily identical with the Whole (God). This distinction is easy to understand.
~ Unknown
Faith is the whole man rightly related to God by the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
~ Oswald Chambers
Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before the throne of God.
~ Oswald Chambers
It is an injustice to say that Jesus Christ labored in redemption to make me a saint. Jesus Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before God.
~ Oswald Chambers
We are not commissioned to preach salvation or sanctification—we are commissioned to lift up Jesus Christ (see John 12:32). It is an injustice to say that Jesus Christ labored in redemption to make me a saint. Jesus Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before the throne of God. The fact that we can experience redemption illustrates the power of its reality, but that experience is a by-product and not the goal of redemption.
~ Oswald Chambers
Here is a summertime truth: abundance is a communal act, the joint creation of an incredibly complex ecology in which each part functions on behalf of the whole and, in return, is sustained by the whole. Community not only creates abundance – community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature,the human world might be transformed
~ Parker J. Palmer
Only you could go to Spokane and get bitten by the one vampire in the whole city Adam to Mercy
~ Patricia Briggs
la vida (lo natural) no quiere todo; la palabra "todo" no tiene sentido para la vida, sino para el espíritu: el espíritu es el que quiere el "todo", el que piensa el "todo" y el que sólo descansaría en el "todo".
~ Paul Ricoeur
Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by which we are grasped.
~ Paul Tillich
The essence of an orgy is the disappearance of the individual into a greater whole, in a group that has replaced the normal rules by other ones. The limitations of genital orgasm are replaced by the ecstatic enthusiasm of the group, a curious kind of total jouissance that interconnects the individuals and therefore eases them
~ Unknown
We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.
~ Peace Pilgrim
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.
~ Unknown
Where others teach that man does not find himself until he finds God, John Paul gives an empathetic yes and then adds this: Man does not become his truest and most real self unless and John Paul believed that man is by nature part of a whole, that he does not exist alone. He lives in society with other men, who are, like him, God's children. And it is in giving to man, in giving until it hurts, that man in the deepest way finds God. For God himself is a constant giving. (p 126-127)
~ Peggy Noonan
Once you learn the maze or see the labyrinth whole, then, elaborate chaos is transformed into pattern.
~ Unknown
Una sola sentencia puede considerarse como un todo, aunque puede hallarse en medio de una serie de partes no asimiladas; una sola palabra puede ser una chispa de inextinguible pensamiento.
~ Unknown
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
~ Peter Ackroyd