Detached Quotes - Page 5

• Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.

  Paul Washer

  Light, Purpose, Weight

  Twitter post from Dec 09, 2012

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• If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Conversely, if the church becomes detached from Jesus Christ and His Word, it cannot grow however active and successful it may seem to be.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Successful, Goal

  Os Guinness (1993). “Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity”, p.39, Baker Books

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• I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

  C. Wright Mills

  Trying, Claims, Objectives

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• Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

  Theophile Gautier

  Travel, Horse, Moon

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• Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Awareness, Spontaneous

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• ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Breathing, Heaven, Ego

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Grief, Way

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• You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Selfish, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Justice, Mercy, Grows

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.326, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

  Mitch Albom

  Way, Emotion, Busy

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• Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

  Robert Hughes

  Eye, Views, Perspective

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.25, Vintage

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• Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Mind, Watches, Gains

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Philosophy, Voice

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• We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.

  Stephen Marche

  World, Contradiction, Novel

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• The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

  Raymond Queneau

  Historical, Stories, Sides

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• The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you."

  Joseph Girzone

  Prayer, Heart, Talking

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• The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Perfection, Detachment

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• My specialty is detached malevolence.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Malevolence, Specialty

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• I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Cutting, Individuality, Adrift

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• If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sports, Art, Mean

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• Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

  Philip Neri

  Men, Giving, Saint

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• To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

  Peter Claver

  Saint, Sake, God Love

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• Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

  Simone Weil

  Reality, Attachment, Want

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

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• What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie

  Christian, Prayer, Two

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• Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Inspirational, Trying, Achieve

  Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.142, St. Martin's Griffin

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