Quotes about Necessary
Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one.
- Wendell Berry
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
- CS Lewis
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
- Richard Baxter
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Samuel Johnson
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- Thomas Jefferson
The brain must function during the renovation […] The old parts are in charge of too many fundamental functions for them to be replaced altogether. So they wheeze along, out of-date and sometimes counterproductive, but a necessary consequence of our evolution.
- Carl Sagan
But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.
- Stephen Covey
We are so used to considering everything through the prism of our current feelings and our most recent acquisitions that it is a radical change to consider the vast before . But if we would live well, it is necessary.
- Eugene Peterson
I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!
- Helen Keller
Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.
- Teresa of Avila
God's signature is not just in the cell, it's in all of creation. God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music. Once the band stops playing, the music is over.
- Frank Turek
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
- Henri Nouwen