"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Action Quotes

“If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other people. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace by the way and glory to the end â€“ all this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions. He loves us too well to promise that.”

Source : "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".
“The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.”
“Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.”
“Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again.”
“The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.”
“There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.”
“I'm tired of justifying what I've said.”
“Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.”

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