Formation Quotes
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.
If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.
We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies.
By extending love and comfort to the broken places around us, we keep watch with Jesus in his sorrow.
What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?
Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
Knowing what we believe and why we believe it is not an option for the Christian, because as believers, OUR BELIEFS ARE THE VERY HEART OF WHO WE ARE.
The secret to extraordinary faith is fully engaging our MINDS, as well as our hearts, because DYNAMIC FAITH REQUIRES A HEALTHY BALANCE OF BOTH.
The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.
Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.
God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth.
If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.