Needful Quotes

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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
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a… — Rowan Williams
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Money is a needful and precious thing — Louisa May Alcott
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the… — John Keats
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it. — Max Beerbohm
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the… — Sarah Bernhardt
It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't… — Guy Finley
The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn… — Guy Finley
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are. — Lisa Kleypas
Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ?… — Evagrius Ponticus
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful… — John Dryden
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a… — William Cowper
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you. — Cotton Mather
Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without… — Saint Francis de Sales

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