Quotes about Means

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

How can the sun and the moon praise God as the prophet exhorts them to do? By perfectly carrying out the role God has given them. Thus they render Him great praise. Behold, therefore, a wonderful means by which you can praise God all day: do your duty and whatever else you are given to do well.

Time becomes a means to an end, not moments in which to enjoy God or pay attention to others.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.

No man is so regenerate, but that continually he has need of the means which Christ Jesus has appointed to be used in his kirk.

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment;

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.