Quotes about Necessity
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity.
- St. Augustine
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- St. Augustine
How, then, does an order of causes which is certain to the foreknowledge of God necessitate that there should be nothing which is dependent on our wills, when our wills themselves have a very important place in the order of causes?
- St. Augustine
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
- Wendell Berry
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By slowly converting our loneliness into a deep solitude, we create that precious space where we can discover the voice telling us about our inner necessity—that is, our vocation.
- Henri Nouwen
Prayer has meaning only if it is necessary and indispensable. Prayer is prayer only when we can say that without it, we cannot live.
- Henri Nouwen
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
- Henry David Thoreau
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It
- Henry David Thoreau
By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
- Richard Baxter