#iri

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#collects #combination #combines #experimentation #facts

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#corresponding #energy #muscular #spiritual #sunlight

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves. ↗

— Billy Graham

#servant-heart #service #spiritual-gifts #faith

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ever #exploring #god #i #interested

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#i #minister #prime #prime minister #well

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#although #any #anymore #attention #because

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#back #done #find #life #lived

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#comet #created #drought #every #explain

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#lasting #lasting peace #let us #long #mankind

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#admiring #aside #i #me #person