Quotes about Elements

There are certain elements that Scripture prescribes for corporate worship services of the church. Many theologians refer to these as the elements of corporate worship, and they include the following: 1) Preaching34 2) Sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Table35 3) Prayer36 4) Reading Scripture37 5) Financial giving38 6) Singing and music

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,Strive here for mast'ry.

There are four elements to our passage, and they need to be put in outline form perhaps to see how this passage is put together: First, the claim of fulfillment (5:17). Second, an elucidation of the claim (5:18). Third, the consequences of the elucidated claim (5:19). Fourth, an elucidation of the consequences (5:20).

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. To deal with such paradoxes we shall adopt an approach that we call model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.

Lords of fire and earth and water, Lords of moon and wind and sky, Come now to the Old Man's daughter, Come from fathers long gone by. Bring blue from a distance eye. Lords of water, earth, and fire, Lords of wind and snow and rain, Give to my heart's desire. Life as all life comes with pain, But blue will come to us again.