Murray Bowen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To justify God's ways to man.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.
Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

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