Quotes about Position
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
Anyone, therefore, who obscures the glory of God, puts himself in the position of striving to subvert the eternal purpose of God.
— John Calvin
When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men.
— Tony Evans
You are in a position of total powerlessness, and your ego is fighting it. All you can do is surrender and enter into this dance of unhindered dialogue, this circle of praise, this web of communion that we call the Blessed Trinity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
— Kathleen Norris
To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.
— Henry Blackaby
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
— Francis Schaeffer
I never get involved in policy. Never.
— Rick Warren
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
— Stephen Colbert
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those Not in position to look too close.
— Robert Frost
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
— Publilius Syrus
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson