Quotes about Concrete
It can be argued that Advent, more than any other season of the church year, is immediately relevant to our concrete lives as individuals, to the concrete life of the church under stress, and to the concrete headlines in the newspaper.
- Fleming Rutledge
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
When I'm home, my friends are all coming home from work, their lives are a little more concrete.
- Scott Moir
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
- CS Lewis
Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But, even in this concrete relationship to the Son of God become man, this is really something new only in so far as it expresses the revelation of what began to be true with the Incarnation and has never since ceased to be true.
- Karl Barth
Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.
- Dallas Willard
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
- CS Lewis