#highest

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#christian #christianity #civil #civil liberty #civilization

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#civilization #classical #common #discussion #freedom

Don't settle for less than God's best for you". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#excellency #highest-good #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#education #existence #give #harmony #highest

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#attacks #because #center #highest #kingdom

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#highest #lesson #management #plan #possible

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#done #execution #getting #highest #highest standards

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#civilization #cradle #eastern #exceptions #few

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing