Quotes about Rigidity
hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.
— John Updike
An over-authoritarian church, paying no attention to experience, solves the problem by paving the garden with concrete. An over-experiential church solves the (real or imagined) problem of concrete (rigid and "judgmental" forms of faith) by letting anything and everything grow unchecked, sometimes labeling concrete as "law" and so celebrating any and every weed as "grace.
— NT Wright
Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
— Ezekiel 3:8
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
— Joel Osteen
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
— Henry David Thoreau
Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner.
— Charles Dickens
When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.
— Frank Peretti
Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man's body, his mind, or his spirit.
— Bruce Lee
Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.
— Herman Melville
But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft and true witnesses without being manipulative.
— Brennan Manning
We walk through life as if we had swallowed an Easter candle, rigid and tense, always afraid that things will get out of hand. This reaction is just as harmful as open rebellion, or even more so, because it blocks our way to religious maturation.
— Henri Nouwen
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
— Henry David Thoreau