Quotes about Idea

God's idea of ministry training is a broken vessel. His idea of spiritual preparation is suffering, which includes rejection.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

men never really overcome fear until they imagine they are fighting to further a universal purpose—fighting for an idea, as they call it. Why was the Crusader braver than the pirate? Because he fought, not for himself, but for the Cross.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.