Quotes about Object

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject. Love is directed to someone else for the sake of the other's perfection; sex is directed to self for the sake of self-satisfaction.

A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.

If I preach the law to the unsaved, showing its spirituality and the breadth of its requirements, pressing upon them the justice of its demands, proving they are under its righteous condemnation, and all of this with the object of driving them out of themselves to Christ, then I make a right and legitimate service of the law. I "use it lawfully" (1 Tim. 1:8) and do not pit it against the gospel.

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

we mortals have our divine moments, when love is satisfied in the completeness of the beloved object

The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.

faith is only as good as its object.

True faith energizes vocal proclamation and courageous witness concerning its glorious object: Jesus.

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.