Becoming Quotes - Page 15

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.