Quotes about Rigidity
Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
— Ezekiel 3:8
Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.
— William Barclay
Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
— Joyce Meyer
Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.
— Dorothy Sayers
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
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
— Joel Osteen
every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry
— Walter Brueggemann
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
— Henry David Thoreau
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— GK Chesterton
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
— Samuel Johnson