Sake Quotes - Page 12

…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

There is something about keeping Him divine that keeps Him distant, packaged, predictable. But don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him be as human as He intended to be. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let Him in can He pull us out.

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.