Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. (94)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

[A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from...

Martin O'Malley

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the...

Christopher Dawson

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controllin...

Ralph Adams Cram

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libert...

Adam Gopnik

It is necessary to have “watchers” at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and firm ways, as the anti-traditional forces grow in strength. Even though these values cannot be achieved, it does not mean ...

Revolt Against the Modern World

The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it w...

Robert M. Pirsig

Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is...

G.K. Chesterton

Now if BECOMING history is the particularity of the Son in the economy, what is the contribution of the Spirit? Well, precisely the opposite: it is to liberate the Son and the economy from the bondage of history. If the Son dies on the cross, thus su...

Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church

If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago? The point here is that history is open ended and we cannot be sure about the past. So why study history? Because it teaches us...

Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation ...

Dana Arnold

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.

A Brief History of Montmaray

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

Robert Nelson

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

How I Live Now

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature