I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.
Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter
[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. . . . it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
I woke at intervals until. . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
What better way to actually deal with L. A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
I practice more than ever. . . mostly scales and arpeggios. . . and anything I can't do.
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
Some dream in color. We dream in scale.
We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
Work on nothing less than epic scale
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.