What brings us to perfection? An ingrained faith in God, the 'faith that makes real the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1), the faith whereby Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain and was commended as righteous (cf. Heb 11:4). It is such faith that fills those assiduous in the search for truth with great aspiration for the exalted gifts of God, and leads them to the spiritual knowledge of created beings; and it pours into their hearts the inexhaustible treasures of the Spirit.
Badass is a juvenile aspiration.
There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days. . . demonstrated that core character over and over again.
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
I have no political aspirations. Thats it.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.
The human condition. . . is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.
Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.