Quotes about Object

God is not one more intelligible object among many, not a supreme existing thing among other existing things, not simply the highest value alongside other ethical goods. Rather, God is that which is intelligible in itself, that which exists through the power of its own essence, that which is good by its very nature.

In its present form the Bible is the only object in the world which is not in need of either praise or sanctification. In its present form the Bible is the only point in the world from which God will never depart. This is the book to which Israel deferred; we must tremble to tamper with it.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

In nature, as in work of art, the isolation of an object tends to invest it with absoluteness, to endow it with that more-than-symbolic meaning which is identical with being.

Since the object of our worship is the glorious and majestic God of heaven, when worship becomes empty, the problem lies somewhere with the subject (us), not the object (God).

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

Furthermore, we are so accustomed to seeing the cross functioning as a decoration that we can scarcely imagine it as an object of shame and scandal unless it is burned on someone's lawn.

When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.