Turning Points Quotes - Page 2

• But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none?

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

  Children, People, Giving

  Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.25, Arktos

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• The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.

  Tim Blixseth

  Motivational, Business, Believe

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• This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more than ever. All of your struggles, all the struggles of your ancestors, all the struggles of all life have led to this moment right now. You are the culmination of life's great yearning; you are the hope of the world.

  Ilchi Lee

  Beautiful, Struggle, Hopeful

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jul 13, 2014

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• Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Forever, Useless

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• When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

  John de Ruiter

  Self

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• Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Communication, Creating, Energy

  "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.

  Kate Morton

  Memories, War, Past

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

  David Jeremiah

  Personality, Want, Scripture

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• ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

  Oscar Wilde

  Father, Oxford, Two

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Men, Community, Darkness

  "After Virtue". Book by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1981.

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• The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

  Henri de Lubac

  Men, Moments, Jew

  Henri de Lubac (1995). “The Drama of Atheist Humanism”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Knowing, Imbeciles

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• Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mean, Breathing Space, History

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

  Terence McKenna

  Long, World, Possibility

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• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Sea, People

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• When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Drama, Drinking, Wine

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.92, Multnomah

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• We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.

  David Jeremiah

  Body, Spirit, Christ

  David Jeremiah (2011). “Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God is never early and never late.

  David Jeremiah

  Late

  David Jeremiah (2013). “What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith”, p.82, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

  William Bridges

  Keys, Self, Growth

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• To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.

  David Jeremiah

  Attitude, Pharisees, Traps

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• Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

  David Jeremiah

  Commitment, Destiny, Cost

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• I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

  Timothy West

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, Able, Facts

  David Jeremiah (2010). “Jesus' Final Warning”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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• There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

  Arianna Huffington

  Live Life, Looks, Purpose

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.22, Harmony

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