To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically in...
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor
People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.
One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their intellectual level.
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.
