Quotes about Means

himself, even if the means of escape lay before him; nay, he embraces him not less as the avenger of wickedness than as the rewarder of the righteous; because he perceives that it equally appertains to his glory to store up punishment for the one, and eternal life for the other.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another. It is the only means.

the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over? Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user?

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.