Necessary Things

The Beginning of Philosophy

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. Epictetus

God’s willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God’s ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil. Edward McKendree Bounds

The only thing necessary

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

Tough minded enough to

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things–this is the epitome of what a team is. Don Meyer

Aristippus being asked what

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, Those things which they will put in practice when they become men. Diogenes Laertius

It is Toussaint’s supreme

It is Toussaint’s supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no … Read more

There is nothing grand

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a … Read more

In necessary things, unity;

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. Anne Baxter

Only if the third

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two. Ray Bradbury

I believe that the

I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of the Eucharist, but to revive wonder and marvel before the mystery. Raniero Cantalamessa