Sufficiency Quotes

• Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

  Euripides

  Men, Enough

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore”

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• The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loneliness, Self, Bucks

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.67, Basic Books

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• If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Men, Apostles, Ifs

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Society, World

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• And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Self, Needs, My Family

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• Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

  Hudson Taylor

  Teaching, Feelings, Each Day

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• Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Self, Sometimes, Weak

  Twitter post from Feb 07, 2015

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• Lord, You have told me who You are, You have in mercy revealed Yourself to me, I know You to be that blessed 'gift of God' which alone can save and satisfy my soul. The depth and compass of heavenly love are manifested in You, and You have shown me, not my need only, but the sufficiency of Your grace and power to meet it. I am an empty sinner, You are a full Christ!

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Blessed, Grace, Soul

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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Being Alone

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.178, Stanford University Press

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• The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Merit, Knows

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• I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

  John Galsworthy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Success, Moving, Character

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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage

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• Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Moving, Character, Self

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• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

  Epicurus

  Freedom, Self, Liberty

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  Sam Levenson

  Happy Birthday, Son, Hands

  Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Office

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.120

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• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Ignorance, Self, Inexperience

  Joseph Addison (1853). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.139

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• The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Yield, Limits

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

  Hudson Taylor

  Differences, Victory, Liberty

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• I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

  Robert Fripp

  Morning, Views, Concern For Others

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• Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

  Epicurus

  Littles, Persons, Sufficient

  Epicurus (1963). “The philosophy of Epicurus: letters, doctrines, and parallel passages from Lucretius”

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• Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

  Louie Giglio

  Insufficiency

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• I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.

  Rich Mullins

  Fall, Thinking, Ideas

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