F H Batacan Quotes

We are powerless when we wait for other people to act on our behalf. ~ F.H. Batacan

Some things are better dealt within the cleansing light of transparency and openness rather than in the darkness of secrecy. ~ F.H. Batacan

That's the nature of any kind of rot. If you don't stop it, it keeps going. It will keep going until it destroys the very organism that feeds it. ~ F. H. Batacan

We are all powerless in the face of evil. No, no, that's not true. We are powerless when we wait for other people to act on our behalf. Yes, that's it. The truly powerful man is the man who stands alone. ~ F.H. Batacan

There are many ways to give witness to faith. ~ F.H. Batacan

No use complaining about the world's freest press-we fought for it, we got it, now we have to live with the nonsense that it spews out. ~ F. H. Batacan

The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

In his 1986 autobiographical work, Confessions of a Theologian, Carl F. H. Henry, dean of twentieth-century American evangelical theologians, lamented that several Christian colleges and universities had started to veer away from the centrality of their work, by and large giving up the cognitive focus on Christian thought in favor of Christian piety and activism. ~ David S. Dockery

Everything less than the Universe is an abstraction. ~ F.H. Bradley

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ~ F.H. Bradley

You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. ~ F.H. Bradley

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

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. ~ F.H. Bradley

Thought the world of you, did Kitten. Wouldn't hear a word against you; wouldn't even admit you can't drive well enough for the F.H.C. That shows you! Always seemed to me she only thought of pleasing you. If she took a fancy to do something she shouldn't, only had to tell her you wouldn't like it, and she'd abandon it on the instant. Used to put me in mind of that rhyme, or whatever it was, I learned when I was a youngster. Something about loving and giving: that was Kitten! ~ Georgette Heyer

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. ~ F.H. Bradley

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. ~ F.H. Bradley

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. ~ F.H. Bradley

Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes of consciousness were informed by an excellent education in the social sciences and philosophy. As a prelude to our guided tour of the text of The Waste Land, we now turn to a brief survey of some of his intellectual preoccupations in the decade before he wrote it, preoccupations which in our view are enormously helpful in understanding the form of the poem. Eliot entered Harvard as a freshman in 1906 and finished his doctoral dissertation in 1916, with one of the academic years spent at the Sorbonne and one at Oxford. At Harvard and Oxford, he had as teachers some of modern philosophy's most distinguished individuals, including George Santayana, Josiah Royce, Bertrand Russell, and Harold Joachim; and while at the Sorbonne, he attended the lectures of Henri Bergson, a philosophic star in Paris in 1910-11. Under the supervision of Royce, Eliot wrote his dissertation on the epistemology of F. H. Bradley, a major voice in the late-nineteenth-, early-twentieth-century crisis in philosophy. Eliot extended this period of concentration on philosophical problems by devoting much of his time between 1915 and the early twenties to book reviewing. His education and early book reviewing occurred during the period of epistemological disorientation described in our first chapter, the period of "betweenness" described by Heidegger and Ortega y Gasset, the ~ Jewel Spears Brooker

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced. ~ F.H. Bradley

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. ~ F.H. Bradley

The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible. ~ F.H. Bradley

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being. ~ F.H. Bradley

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood, ~ Carl F. H. Henry

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it. ~ F.H. Bradley

Evangelical theology is heretical if it is only creative and unworthy if it is only repetitious ~ Carl F.H. Henry

Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. ~ F.H. Bradley

Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ~ F.H. Bradley

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. ~ F.H. Bradley

The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. ~ F.H. Bradley

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. ~ F.H. Bradley

The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social ~ Carl F. H. Henry

Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross? ~ Carl F. H. Henry

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity. ~ Carl F. H. Henry

I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss. ~ F.H. Bradley

Carl F. H. Henry was reputed to say, The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time. ~ J.D. Greear

It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens - sometimes hundreds - of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny. ~ F.H. Buckley

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. ~ F.H. Bradley