Formation Quotes

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.

When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.

The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.