A Quote by Leland Ryken

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

Leland Ryken

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Christian Christian Life Energy Full Heroic Life Puritan Quota Thinking Venture

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Leland Ryken
American - Educator

A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth.

Alistair Begg

The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of clean-energy technologies - and doing that very soon... Are we, as a species, capable of that kind of deliberate global response?

Eban Goodstein

The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?

Martin Schulz

David Cameron, and before him Iain Duncan Smith, went out of their way to attract women into the party. Yes, we need to sell politics to more women, but quotas are not the way forward. You set a quota, what is the right quota? What is the wrong quota?

Esther McVey

Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.

Gordon Brown

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

Jair Bolsonaro

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

Dan Kimball

I feel comfortable putting my political stances out there without feeling as though I am filling some sort of quota. I don't have a wokeness quota for the day.

Yara Shahidi

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

Jan Karon

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

Thomas Brooks

Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

Ice Cube

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Thomas Carlyle

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

Janet Montgomery

Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.

John Trudell

Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.