Essentials Quotes - Page 5

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms.

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment