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Ramakrishna.

What a man wants is already within him; but he still wanders here and there in search of it.

In:  Margaret Lewis Furse, Mysticism (FIUGEN, 1977), p. 43.

DESIRE; WANDERING

19961200

Randall, John Herman, Jr., and Buchler, Justus..

An important trait that underlies the method of Kierkegaard, and perhaps of all that which is called "existentialist", is the treatment of deep human emotion ("passion") as an avenue of knowledge.

Philosophy: An Introduction. (PF014, Barnes & Noble, 1971), p. 278.

EMOTIONS; EXISTENTIALISM; KIERKEGAARD, SOREN; KNOWLEDGE; PASSION

19800202

Raudsepp, Eugene.

The philosopher John Dewey was one of the first to note that creativity does not start with facts, theories, or hypotheses, but with a problematic situation.  He felt that sensitivity, and the ability to envisage and formulate the right problem are crucial to effective problem solving.

How to Create New Ideas (Perigree, 1982), p. 27.

CREATIVITY; DEWEY, JOHN; FACTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SITUATIONS; THEORIES

19870707

Creativity is...contingent upon the preservation of curiosity and the sense of wonder that are so apparent in youth and so conspicuously absent in many grownups.

How to Create New Ideas (Perigree, 1982), p. 31.

ADULTS; CHILDREN; CREATIVITY; CURIOSITY; WONDER

19870707

What makes memory creative is a state of flux or dynamic mobility in its components.

How to Create New Ideas (Perigree, 1982), p.40.

CREATIVITY; MEMORY

19870707

Creative people rely heavily on internal visual imagery, or "thought-visions."...And there are a host of other noted creative individuals on record who stated that first they try to feel or couch in imagery what they imagine before naming it or formulating a verbal concept of it.

How to Create New Ideas (Perigree, 1982), p. 41.

CLASSIFICATIONS; CREATIVITY; FORMULATIONS; IMAGES; WORDS - VERBALIZING

19870707

Creative individuals have also learned...that these quasi-serious exercises relax the critical and conservative bent of their consciousness....By putting the judicial censor of their conscious minds to sleep, so to speak, creative people can pass over the established order and set the stage for the premiere of novel ideas and solutions.

How to Create New Ideas (Perigree, 1982), p. 43.

CONSCIOUSNESS; CREATIVITY; CRITICAL FACULTIES; PLAY

19870707

Truly creative people are not afraid of disorder or ambiguity.

How to Create New Ideas (Perigree, 1982), p. 44.

AMBIGUITY; CHAOS; CREATIVITY; ORDER

19870707

Read, Piers Paul.

However, it was Islam, not Christianity, that from its inception promoted conversion through conquest; and even if Christianity, at certain times and in certain places, also baptized at the point of the a sword, its growth in its first three centuries to encompass the whole Roman Empire was almost wholly pacific.  Therefore, from the time of the Prophet Muhammed's first razzia, the Christian's perception was that the wars against Islam were waged either in defence of Christendom or to liberate and reconquer lands that were rightly theirs.

The Templars.  (HQ080, 1999), p. 311.

CHRISTIANITY; CRUSADES; ISLAM; JIHAD

20020701

Rees, Elizabeth.

Symbolism is a language not of abstractions but of feelings and images.

Christian Symbols, Ancient Roots.  (PR007, J Kinglsey Pub, 1992), p. 15.

EMOTIONS; IMAGES; SYMBOLISM; THINKING, ABSTRACT

20060321

Ritual is a holy, symbolic action:  we walk across the bridge of ritual into the world of the transcendent.  A ritual is a symbolic journey towards wholeness.

Christian Symbols, Ancient Roots.  (PR007, J Kinglsey Pub, 1992), p. 149.

ACTIONS, SYMBOLIC; BRIDGES; JOURNEYS; RITUALS - DEFINITIONS; TRANSCENDENCE; WHOLENESS

20070528

Reid, James.

The judgement of holy love is more terrible to face than the judgement of / one who does not care about us.

Interpreter's Bible, X (HG153, Abingdon, ) pp. 332-3.

AGAPÉ; GOD'S LOVE; JUDGEMENT

19770000

Reps, Paul.

96.  Devotion frees.

"Centering",

In:  Reps, Paul, comp.  Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (PK040, ), p. 173.

DEVOTION; FREEDOM; ZEN

19830328

110.  Since, in truth, bondage and freedom are relative, these words are only for those terrified with the universe....

"Centering",

In:  Reps, Paul, comp.  Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (PK040, ), p. 174.

FEAR; FREEDOM; SLAVERY; WORDS; ZEN

19830328

Richardson, Alan.

Today it is patently true that theology is being done in dialogue with, or sometimes in reaction from, the various modes of philosophical and scientific thinking which prevail in our time.

"Preface,"

Richardson, Alan, ed.  A Dictionary of Christian Theology.  (FIURF, Westminster Press, 1969), P. v.

DIALOGUE; PHILOSOPHY; REACTION & REACTING; SCIENCE; THEOLOGY; TODAY, THE PRESENT TIME

20070424

Ridenour, Fritz.

...being "religious"—that is, trying to find God or please Him through your own futile efforts.

How to Be a Christian without Being Religious.  (PR085, Regal, 2002), p. 7.

EFFORTS; GOD; RELGION - DEFINITIONS; RELIGIOUS PEOPLE

20060909

Robert, Henry M.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the last of real liberty.

The Scott, Foresman Robert's Rules of Order, newly revised. p. v.

LAW; LIBERTY

19820000

Robinson, H. Wheeler.

It [sin] creates its own penalties, alienating the good which might have brought deliverance from it, hardening itself to worse and worse deeds which dispense with even the poor excuse of its own beginning.  Sooner or later, it finds the universe arrayed against it; for sin is the challenge to the whole of things by the individual man, which is the sheerest and uttermost folly.

Two Hebrew Prophets. Pp. 27-28.

In:  Mauchline, John. "Introduction, Hosea,"

In:  The Interpreters Bible, VI. (HG149, Abingdon, ????), p. 554.

ALIENATION; INDIVIDUALS; PENALTIES; SIN - DEFINITIONS; WHOLE, THE

19820000

Rogers, Will.

I belong to no organized party.  I am a Democrat.

in:  Siegelman, Lee.  "Is the Democratic Party Disintegrating?"

in:  Society (July-Aug., 1984), p. ?.

DEM0CRATIC NATIONAL PARTY

198440905

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Pan-American Day Address, April 14, 1939,

In:  The Speakers Almanac, p. ?

FATE; PRISONERS

19840531

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

"The New Deal,",

In:  Wilson quarterly, VI (2), p. 50.

FEAR

19810000

Rosche, Paul J.

The real secret to a long and healthy life is to enjoy what you are doing and be good at it.  It is not to avoid stress.

In:  Restak, Richard.  The Brain (PL036, Bantam, 1984), p. 136.

HEALTH; LIFE, LONG; STRESS

19860717

Rosen, Robert H., et al.

Many of us take literacy for granted.  We can't imagine--or remember--a world in which we were not able to read.  But all of us were there at one time.

Global Literacies (FIUGL, Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 15.

LITERACY

20010213

Because globalization and technology have leveled the playing field, and since we've reached a high level of sophistication in our systems and processes, our people provide our only remaining competitive advantage.

Global Literacies (FIUGL, Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 24.

COMPETITION--ADVANTAGES; PERSONNEL; EMPLOYEES; GLOBALIZATION

20010214

Rosinski, Herbert.

Strategy is the comprehensive direction of power to control situations and areas in order to attain broad objectives.

In:  Eccles, Henry E.  Military Power in a Free Society ( (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. iv.

CONTROL; GUIDANCE; OBJECTIVES; STRATEGY - DEFINITIONS

19860808

Ross, Allen P.

But we rarely see the splendor, the beauty, and the glory of worship because we are not drawn out of our world enough to comprehend the God of glory; consequently, our worship is all too frequently unexceptional and at times irrelevant.

Recalling the Hope of Glory.  (HR194, Kregel, 2006), p. 35.

BEAUTY; GLORY; RELEVANCE; SPLENDOR; WORSHIP

20080316

The word world has several meanings:  it may mean the physical world that God created, the people who live in the world (“the world did not know him”), or the present evil system (“love not the world”).

Recalling the Hope of Glory.  (HR194, Kregel, 2006), p. 121, n.1.

WORLD, THE - DEFINITIONS

20080426

Whenever proclamation has been lost to worship, worship loses its way and becomes empty ritual.... The Word gives the ritual meaning, and the ritual gives visible form to the Word.

Recalling the Hope of Glory.  (HR194, Kregel, 2006), p. 146.

JESUS THE CHRIST; MEANING; PROCLAMATION; RITUAL & RITUALS; WORD, THE; WORSHIP; WORSHIP SERVICES & RITES

20080503

...we too desperately need a place of atonement and a mediator to intercede for us.  Nothing draws us to these provisions with more urgency and longing than our guilty fears brought about by sin.

Recalling the Hope of Glory.  (HR194, Kregel, 2006), p. 186.

ATONEMENT; FEAR; GUILT; MEDIATORS; SIN

20080524

The Lord of eternity created time so that all his works could fulfill his plan in the seasons and sequences of this life.  He then stepped into time to redeem his fallen creatures from death and received them into his eternal rest.

Recalling the Hope of Glory.  (HR194, Kregel, 2006), p. 223.

ETERNITY; GOD - IMMANENCE; GOD - TIME; GOD'S PLAN; GOD'S REST; REDEMPTION; SEASONS; SEQUENCES; TIME

20080705

Ross, W. Stanley.

Rewritten diaries, carefully edited and bolstered with afterthoughts, rarely present a reflection of things and people as they really were;....

Ill Met by Moonlight (HQ262, Folio Soc., 2001, 1950), p. 15.

AFTERTHOUGHTS; DIARIES & JOURNALS

20031225

Rossi, Lee D.

These Christian reactionaries have no political program.  They find no social group which responds spontaneously to their ideology and which could carry through their program of cultural reform.  They feel isolated not only from the bourgeois and the working class, but also from their peers in the intelligentsia, a group which is becoming increasingly secular.

The Politics of Fantasy (FIU, 1984, UMI) p. 4.

CHRISTIANS; LEWIS, C.S.; SCHOLARS; TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

20010423

Roszak, Theodore.

At this high level of speculative fever, we are no longer discussing the mere cleverness of machines; the moral resolve and biological fitness of our own species are being weighed in the scales of evolutionary survival---and found wanting.

The Culture of Information (1986), p. 43.

COMPUTERS - DEVELOPMENTS; HUMAN EVOLUTION

19871111

This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind.  And it is the mind that must think about things, including the computer.

The Culture of Information (1986), p. 45.

COMPUTERS; INTELLIGENCE; MIND; THINKING

19871111

And lacking a warm and lively sense of the sacred, there can be no ethical commitment that is anything more than superficial humanist rhetoric..

The Making of a Counter Culture (PG048, Anchor Bks, 1969), p. 273.

COUNTER CULTURES; ETHICS; HUMANISM; OBJECTIVISM; SACRED, THE

19730000

Routh, Martin Joseph

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

Memoir of Dr. Routh

In:  DiGaetani, John L., et al.  Writing Out Loud (FIUL, Dow Jones, 1983) p. 153

QUOTATIONS; REFERENCES; VERIFICATION

19870526

Rubin, Louis, D., Jr.

Yet what old-timers really want is not the past itself, but themselves as they were when inhabiting that past--which is to say, to be young again.

Seaports of the South (1998, HP395) pp. 48-49.

LONGING; NOSTALGIA; OLD-TIMERS; SENIOR ADULTS; YOUTH

20010423

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