"Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage."

-- Auguste Comte

#Three Quotes #Metaphysical Quotes #Abstract Quotes

“If your dream only includes you, it's too small.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015
“We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.”

Source : Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.231
“I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.”

Source : "Scenes de la vie future". Book by Georges Duhamel (p. 52), translated, 1930.
“Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.”
“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”
“It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.”
“And they die an equal death â€” the idler and the man of mighty deeds.”
“Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.”

Source : Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ”, p.189, Harper Collins

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