Quotes about Shape

As, when the sun shines above the earth, the shadow is spread over its lower part, because its spherical shape makes it impossible for it to be clasped all round at one and the same time by the rays, and necessarily, on whatever side the sun's rays may fall on some particular point of the globe, if we follow a straight diameter, we shall find shadow upon the opposite point, and so, continuously, at the opposite end of the direct line of the rays shadow moves round that globe,

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,

Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour's slumber, it cannot be bought: of so beautiful a shape is it, that though a man lie with an Empress, his heart cannot beat quite till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other: yea, so greatly indebted are we to this

In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There

God's kingdom happens when human beings are empowered by God's Spirit to do God's kingdom work in the shape of a new community.

Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

In essence, the apostle is the one who is most likely to facilitate the emergence of communitas, a particular kind of community that is shaped and formed around a challenge or compelling task.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.