Quotes about Sense
It would be more accurate to say that human fatherhood is metaphorical, a temporal sign of an eternal reality. God's fatherhood is true fatherhood in the truest sense.
- Scott Hahn
That there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead, the memory of which he constantly renews and occasionally enlarges, that all to a man being aware that there is a God, and that he is their Maker, may be condemned by their own conscience when they neither worship him nor consecrate their lives to his service.
- John Calvin
Dull sublunary lovers' love(Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth removeThose things which elemented it.
- John Donne
Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
- J. Oswald Sanders
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
- Mark Twain
It was much simpler for him to judge Miss Bart by her habitual conduct than by the rare deviations from it which had thrown her so disturbingly in his way; and every act of hers which made the recurrence of such deviations more unlikely confirmed the sense of relief with which he returned to the conventional view of her.
- Edith Wharton
Shamed people rarely take stands against injustice. Such a stand would mean they would have to go public, which would only double the shame. Instead, once we are shamed, most of us try to make sense of it by believing we are getting what we deserve. So why would we protest?
- Edward Welch
When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.
- Todd Haynes
Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573).
- Richard Baxter
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry louder in his ears than your sins.
- Richard Sibbes
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- George Bernard Shaw