Sufficiency Quotes

Sufficiency Quote of the day

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.

Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

I guess there are never enough books.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.