Race Quotes - Page 146

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

I'm so used to hate that I'm starting to embrace it.

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.