Quotes about Necessity
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
— Victor Hugo
One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.
— Anne Lamott
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
— John F. Kennedy
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
— Mark Twain
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
— St. Augustine
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
— Desmond Tutu
The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.
— Aristotle
For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.
— Aristotle
So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
— John Milton
understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.
— John Newton
Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. With
— John Piper