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Quotes about Necessity

Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world.
- Paulo Coelho
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
- St. Augustine
God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.
- William Lane Craig
Men may differ as to the nature and the reach of conversion, but its necessity is established beyond all doubt; the whole of humanity proclaims the truth of the fall.
- Herman Bavinck
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
- Martin Van Buren
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
- Victor Hugo
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nothing can be ours by right, by nature, or by necessity. But one thing is mine by my free choice: the self I give away in love. This is the thing even God cannot do for me. It really is my choice. God can love, but He cannot compel my free love. If it is compelled, it is not free. If it is free, it is not compelled.
- Peter Kreeft
the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .
- Peter Kreeft
There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.
- Ruth Westheimer
and uncared for. Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing:
- Corrie Ten Boom
The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'
- Lisa Wingate