Sermon quotes on ideas
Henry Thomas Buckle
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Ronald A. Heifetz
You cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.
Victor Hugo
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
C.S. Lewis
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
Theology is practical, especially now… If you do not listen to Theology that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones – bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas.
Oscar Wilde
All great ideas are dangerous.
Howard H. Aiken
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Henry Ward Beecher
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Thomas Edison
The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don’t develop them.
Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio)
Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it’s almost impossible to eradicate.
Movie: Inception, 2010.
Dallas Willard
Wrong ideas about God make it impossible for us to function in relationship with one another.
Robert Oxton Bolt
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Wilkie Collins
It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.
Thomas Merton
Hence contemplation does not simply “find” a clear idea of God and confine Him within the limits of that idea, and hold Him there as a prisoner to Whom it can always return. On the contrary, contemplation is carried away by Him into His own realm, His own mystery and His own freedom. It is a pure and a virginal knowledge, poor in concepts, poorer still in reasoning, but able, by its very poverty and purity, to follow the Word “wherever He may go.”
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