Quotes about Necessity

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will by nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMATION Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. The universe exists. Therefore, the explanation of the universe's existence is God.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.