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What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.
Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.
The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.
We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.
I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing.
Without even knowing, a person goes around scattering their heart. That's why if you're with a smiling person, you end up smiling with them.
Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
Yoga has so many different practices. I don't really enjoy Ashtanga. I don't really enjoy Bikram because I don't like knowing what's coming.
I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing, so I just have to keep going.
I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.
I think it is always tough no matter where you are in your journey. Always staying focused and knowing why you are doing what you are doing.
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.
Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing.
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.
The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.
Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.
As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.
You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.