Needful Quotes

72 Needful quotes by 60 unique authors

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth… — Unknown Author
Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through… — Paul of the Cross
That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of… — Charles Darwin
Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring. — John McLeod
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. — Robert Hayden
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is… — Carl Jung
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. — Helen Hunt
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word… — J.R.R. Tolkien
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than… — Henry Ward Beecher
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful… — Benedict of Nursia
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. — Philip Wylie
Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you… — Guy Finley
'We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are renewed by holy… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you… — William Shakespeare
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe… — Isaac Barrow
Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife… — J C Ryle
What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the… — Alvin R. Dyer
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers… — Ambrose Bierce

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