Quotes about Ends
Change starts, proceeds, and ends with Jesus. We look to Jesus and away from ourselves.
- Edward Welch
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
- John Piper
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
- Francis Schaeffer
I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
- Clay Aiken
people will frame a divinity to themselves, pleasing to the flesh suitable to their own ends, which, being vain in the substance, will prove likewise vain in the fruit, and as a building upon the sand.
- Richard Sibbes
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
- John Oliver
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter.
- Ravi Zacharias
Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history'
- Karl Barth