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A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.
Gustav Mahler— 1907 In conversation with Sibelius. Quoted in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985).
Wert thou to open the heart of a single soul by helping him to embrace the Cause of Him Whom God shall make manifest, thine inmost being would be filled with the inspirations of that august Name. It devolveth upon you, therefore, to perform this task in the Days of Resurrection, inasmuch as most people are helpless, and wert thou to open their hearts and dispel their doubts, they would gain admittance into the Faith of God.
báb— XVII, 15 (The Kitáb-I-Asmá)
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
alan hirsch— The Faith of Leap (2011, pg. 123)
It is like a wide embrace gathering all those who have long searched for words of hope… Saddened by the continual strife amongst believers of many confessions and wearied of their intolerance towards each other, I discovered in the Bahá'í teaching the real spirit of Christ so often denied and misunderstood.
queen of romania marie of edinburgh— qtd. in Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By (1944)
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality’s laws – poorly understood and applied – are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.
constantine p. cavafy— The Regiment of the Senses as translated by Manuel Savidis
The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
— Abraham Lincoln, remarks in the United States House of Representatives (June 20, 1848), reprinted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), vol. 1, p. 484.
Savage was persistent, and his efforts met with success among other honors, the American Dialect Society named it their Most Outrageous Word of the Year. Since 2004, I'd wanted to use SANTORUM as soon as possible, and was happy to have the opportunity here. I think crosswords should embrace interesting neologisms, warts and all.
— Tausig, Ben (2007). Gonzo Crosswords. Sterling. p. 89. ISBN 1402742789.
The real problem is how to get people to internally transform , from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.
ken wilber— Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995, 2000)
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I thinkdo there embrace.
Andrew Marvell— c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published1681).
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
john calvin— Page 32 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
If we cover and obliterate man’s faults and consider the beauty and dignity of God’s image in him, then we shall be induced to love and embrace him (Heb 12:16; Gal 6:10; Isa 58:7; Matt 5:44; Luke 17:3-4)
john calvin— Page 38 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Lay bare the soul...painting and poetry are like love...an exchange of blood...a passionate embrace, without restraint, without defence. The picture is born...of an overflow of emotions and feelings...
joan miró— Conversations with Georges Duthuit the French art critic 1936
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
lily tomlin— As quoted in Variety magazine (2003)
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee— The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue: Man Himself Must Choose (1976).
Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I’m glad that that’s being changed.
jimmy carter— Jimmy Carter's Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (June 1977).
I never knew the charm of spring Never met it face to face I never knew my heart could sing Never missed a warm embrace 'Til April in Paris. Whom can I run to What have you done to My heart...
yip harburg— "April in Paris" (1932) - YouTube video - YouTube video
WHERE and WHEN :;Are lost in space. THERE and THEN :;Do not embrace. So before we disappear Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
yip harburg— "Adverbs" in Laughing Space : Funny Science Fiction (1982) edited by Isaac Asimov & ?J. O. Jeppson , p. 503
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.
stanisław lem— Preface (His Master's Voice (1968))
They sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!
thomas mann— Ch. 8 (Tristan (1902))
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak— As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983) by Michael Guillen
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.
Andrew Sullivan— "Imaginationland," The Daily Dish (2007-10-25)
I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see that paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.
— Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Quoted in The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbet, page 292.
The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
Andrew Marvell— Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress (c. 1650).
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau— French actress, singer, screenwriter and director
Give me a book that does my soul embrace And makes simplicity a grace Language freely flowing, thoughts as free Such pleasing books more taketh me Than all the modern works of art That please mine eyes and not my heart.
Ben Jonson— Margaret Denbo. Suggested by "Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace." Ben Jonson, Silent Woman, Act I, scene 1.
See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, line 9
Most Moonies embrace a morality which would make them acceptable in the most genteel Anglican social circle.
— William Shaw, BBC, (1996), [1], The Independent
We're kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols.
Clark Griswold— National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), played by Chevy Chase
embrace your spirituality but don't turn your back on your humanity.
steve maraboli— p. 89 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
