#tru

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization. ↗

— Earl Browder

#determines #development #forces #ideological #into

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? ↗

— David R. Brower

#bed #decides #gets #guy #happens

Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God; faith puts God between us and our circumstances. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#believe #christianity #faith #god #trust

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#grown #i #little #more #much

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. ↗

— David Bowie

#amazes #analyze #even #intelligent #intelligent people

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. ↗

— David Bowie

#course #departing #journey #same #time

We trust nature to know what it is doing, but we are not nearly so kind, understanding and trusting of our own rhythms and cycles. It's ridiculous that we are so hard on ourselves. Can we not trust that the very same forces that created the rhythms and cycles of nature created our own? Of course we can. We often don't, but we can, if we remember. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#faith #natural-forces #natural-rhythm #nature #remember

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#better #blow #depends #either #fly

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #trials #trust #faith