| "The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received." »Richard Jordan |
| "Compassion is the basis of all morality." »Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "The basis of a democratic state is liberty." »Aristotle |
| "Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope." »Carrie P. Snow |
| "...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "The basis for optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality." »Frank Herbert |
| "A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey." »Chaim Weizmann |
| "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner |
| "What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." »William Safire |
| "Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction." »Kabbalah |
| "The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." »Adure Lord |
| "The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield |
| "A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together" »Clyde Kluckhohn |
| "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." »Albert Einstein |
| "It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." »Margaret Bonnano |
| "According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts |
| "Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita" »Thomas Jefferson |
| "For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens." »Joseph Brodsky |
| "Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God." »Richard Jordan |
| "The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner." »Kedar Joshi |
| "As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace." »Larry Riemersma |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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