Make it a part of every day’s business to read and meditate on some portion of God’s Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ’s epistles to the seven churches, except to those who ‘overcome.’ Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that’s something that develops as you get older. And I’ve grown into that.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it’s just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

‘Bloo’ is a compilation of a few songs I’ve written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

A food critic really only needs two things in order to do his job properly: no eating disorders and the gastric morals of a hooker with a mortgage

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of
high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

It is better to have it and need it, than to need it and not have it.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

Necessity has the face of a dog.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

I know when I need it, I can count on you like four, three, two And you’ll be there ’cause that’s what friends are supposed to do

We’ll find out what we’re made of When we are called to help our friends in need

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn’t everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction … for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery

Freedom is the truth of necessity.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.

The emancipation of women is not an act of charity, it’s a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation – it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you’re not

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one’s nature

Necessity knows no law

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted

Whoever is ungrateful sooner or later will fall

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention

We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree

Necessities is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Only thing I got to do is be a better father to my children! Everything else gone fall in place!

Having money is one thing but having sense with the money is the key.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.