Sufficiency Quotes
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
— Abraham Lincoln
[H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.
— Chinua Achebe
If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.
— Matthew Henry
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
— Saul Bellow
the Father uses the valley of shadow to teach you about His sufficiency and goodness. Don't despair, child, while you're walking through it.
— Angela Elwell Hunt
We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
— Satish Kumar
Equip yourself for your own needs.
— Patti Digh
Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
— Harold Bloom
Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus
— Peter Hubbard
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.
— Ashton Applewhite
Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.
— Wayne Muller
God has never been impressed with strength or self-sufficiency. In fact, he is drawn to people who are weak and admit it.
— Rick Warren
Water has never known thirst.
— Marty Rubin
My convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'
— Lucretia Mott
If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.
— Marty Rubin
Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.
— Liezi
You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."
— Tullian Tchividjian
I admire the fog, how it fades into itself.
— Marty Rubin
No matter how many people in how many locations plug into God, you can never run out of God. He is the I AM! Sufficient God!
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.
— Marc Maron
My sufficiency is in the sufficiency of Jesus Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
— William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
— Francis Quarles
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
— Susan B. Anthony
We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.
— L.E. Maxwell
Your abilities are unlimited. Nothing is impossible for you to accomplish, because you're sufficient in God's sufficiency (2 Corinthians 3:5).
— Chris Oyakhilome
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
— Richard Brookhiser
You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.
— Megan Hart
I guess there are never enough books.
— John Steinbeck
The opinions of others cannot damage you.
— Veronica Roth
Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.
— Kris Rafferty
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
— Greta Garbo
Words of the hero: "I am my fate.
— Marty Rubin
Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.
— John Wycliffe
But certainly, their lives are such as very often produce either inordinate self-sufficiency, or a morbid state of conscience.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.
— Harold S. Kushner
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
— Elizabeth I
Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.
— Sharon Salzberg
Rocky, if I've learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it's that no one can take care of me better than I can.
— Starr Ambrose
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.
— David Platt
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.
— Marty Rubin
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
— James H. Douglas Jr.
God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you alway having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work
— Anthony B. Powell
I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in.
— Ray Bradbury
You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
— P.D. James
I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
— Anthony Hope
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
— A.B. Simpson
English restrictive legislation merely hastened the process and inadvertently pushed Americans toward self-sufficiency. At
— Robert G. Ahearn
The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.
— Thomas Chalmers
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all excesses are sufficiencies — David Giannini
all excesses are sufficiencies — David Giannini
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
— Euripides
I thought you'd be entirely self-sufficient.""Oh I am," I shoot back. "You should see my vibrator collection.
— Karina Halle
Go small, go simple, go now
— Larry Pardey
Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?
— Randy Alcorn
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
— Christopher Hitchens