The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed.
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. “But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that ...
...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are ...
He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His l...
How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard ...
That is what a shadow is, an empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is that - a hole in the goodness of God. Evil is all that lacks the goodness of God, a willful choice to turn away from the full goodness of God to that empty of His goodness. All Go...
I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and t...
Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust...Manna with thanks, eat the mystery of the moment with tru...
If it were up to me..." and then the words pound, desperate and hard, "I'd write this story differently."... "Just that maybe... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds." The words I choked out t...
...you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.
I like to see you fully naked like the complete moon.
