#formed

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ↗

— Aristotle

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People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

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