Quotes about Concept

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.

To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.

There is in these words the beautiful maneuverability of the abstract rushing in to replace the intractability of the concrete.

We must be clear that whatever we say of God in such human concepts can never be more than an indication of Him; no such concept can really conceive the nature of God. God is inconceivable.

In the New Testament, the concept of myth is not simply a harmless feature of a primitive world-view, requiring only to be reinterpreted for modern man ... Myth is that which "diminishes the truth of salvation."

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being

hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling;

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.

The process of observing the facts of reality and of integrating them into concepts is, in essence, a process of induction. The process of subsuming new instances under a known concept is, in essence, a process of deduction.

However high, wide, long, or deep your faith may grow through the years, always leave an ellipsis at every point of your spiritual compass. Anything attainable by human understanding is a mere shadow of the reality. Every time you grasp a new concept about God, try thinking, "He's this … and more.