Sustaining Quotes
Sustaining Quote of the day
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.
Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.
Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.
You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.
I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.
So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.
True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain
The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.
Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.
Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.
Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.