Quotes about Source
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.
- Michael Ignatieff
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process. Until we are led to the limits of our present game plan and find it insufficient, we will not search out or find the real source, the deep well, or the constantly flowing stream.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I would almost describe spirituality as a concern for one's being, one's inner motivation and attitude, one's real inner Source, as opposed to any primary concern for one's "doing." Doing will always take care of itself when your being is right. It is our preoccupation with external forms and successes that makes us superficial, judgmental, split off and often just downright wrong—without knowing it. god
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If Christ represents the resurrected state, then Jesus represents the crucified/resurrecting path of getting there. If Christ is the source and goal, then Jesus is the path from that source toward the goal of divine unity with all things.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Love is the source and goal, faith is the slow process of getting there, and hope is the willingness to move forward without resolution and closure. And these are indeed, 'the three things that last' (1 Corinthians 13:13). People who have these gifts—faith, hope, and love—are indestructible.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!
- Rick Warren
By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.
- Wayne Dyer
A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.
- George W. Bush