#position

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#ends #go #important #into #living

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#converts #enthusiast #him #never #opposition

The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification. ↗

— Moritz Schlick

#meaning of #method #proposition #verification

I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position. ↗

— Tim Scott

#district #find #i #i see #move

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil. ↗

— Tim Scott

#capitalism #competition #eliminate #evil #expenses

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#bet #counsel #deal #did #him

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. ↗

— John Searle

#concerned #exposition #follow #i #maxim

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#contemporary #hard #issues #makes #most

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#decisive #explained #factor #i #like

The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#breath #far-reaching #jewish #jewish state #lasting