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Quotes about Necessity

God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!
— CS Lewis
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
— St. Basil
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
— St. Augustine
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
— Thomas Jefferson
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson