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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.Collection: Opposites
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.Collection: Opposites
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.Collection: Opposites
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.Collection: Opposites
Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.Collection: Opposites
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.Collection: Opposites
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.Collection: Opposites
Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.Collection: Opposites
There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.Collection: Opposites
With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better be doing new stuff. There's always a tiny part of the audience that want to hear certain bits of yours, or they've brought friends to see you, and they've told them about some of your bits. Then maybe you should do them.Collection: Opposites
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.Collection: Opposites
We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.Collection: Opposites
As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.Collection: Opposites
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.Collection: Opposites
Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing.Collection: Opposites
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.Collection: Opposites
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.Collection: Opposites
At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.Collection: Opposites
One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.Collection: Opposites
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.Collection: Opposites
You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.Collection: Opposites
A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.Collection: Opposites
Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.Collection: Opposites
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spiritualityCollection: Opposites
One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.Collection: Opposites
There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experienceCollection: Opposites
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.Collection: Opposites
The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.Collection: Opposites
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!Collection: Opposites
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.Collection: Opposites
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.Collection: Opposites
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.Collection: Opposites
The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.Collection: Opposites
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.Collection: Opposites
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.Collection: Opposites
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.Collection: Opposites
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.Collection: Opposites
The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is loveCollection: Opposites
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.Collection: Opposites
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.Collection: Opposites
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elementsCollection: Opposites
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.Collection: Opposites
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.Collection: Opposites
at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.Collection: Opposites
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.Collection: Opposites
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.Collection: Opposites