Inability Quotes - Page 3

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.