Quotes related to Romans 12:2
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
— CS Lewis
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
— Charles Colson
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
— John Hurt
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Right living is a way to right thinking.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Yet our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but rather how to remain human in the skyscrapers. NOTES 1 Portions of this section are based on Heschel, Man Is Not Alone (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1951).
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The self-control of passion, the reshaping of his image of the world, the elimination of the sense of merit, the change of language, the effect of his profession on the structure of his life, all hint at the depth of this crisis.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
— Abraham Lincoln