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Quotes About Sufficient

What do you need? Vadderung asked. Advice, I said. If the price is right. And what do you think a sufficient price would be? Lucy charges a nickel. Ah, Vadderung said. But Lucy is a psychiatrist. You realize that you've just cast yourself as Charlie Brown. Augh, I said.
~ Jim Butcher
He said the wicked know that if the evil they do is of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have only stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose.
~ Unknown
I've been surrounded by love. I know now what the Bible means when it says that His grace is sufficient, that His peace passes understanding. It's all so true.
~ Deborah Raney
Simon wanted a word to describe not getting the very best option but one that was good enough.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Therefore I did still pray to God, that He would come in with this scripture more fully on my heart; to wit, that He would help me to apply the whole sentence, for as yet I could not: that He gave, that I gathered; but farther I could not go, for as yet it only helped me to hope there might be mercy for me; My grace is sufficient: And though it came no farther, it answered my former question, to wit, That there was hope;
~ John Bunyan
these words did with great power suddenly break in upon me; My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee, three times together: And oh! methought that every word was a mighty word unto me; as My, and grace, and sufficient, and for thee; they were then, and sometimes are still, far bigger than others be.
~ John Bunyan
As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.
~ Geoffrey Hill
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
~ John Dryden
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love
~ Unknown
It is better to have one fountain that a thousand cisterns, one all-sufficient God than a thousand insufficient ones.
~ Matthew Henry
Unfortunately, while free time might be a necessary condition for happiness, by itself it is not sufficient to guarantee it. Learning how to use it beneficially turns out to be more difficult than expected. Nor does it seem that more of a good thing is necessarily better; as is true of so many other things, what enriches life in small quantities might impoverish it in larger doses.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. (Ether 12:27.)
~ Neal A. Maxwell
We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God through our own efforts. We must either receive it as a gift or do without it. The greatest spiritual blessing we receive is when we come to the knowledge that we are destitute. Until we get there, our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us as long as we think we are sufficient in and of ourselves. We must enter into His kingdom through the door of destitution.
~ Oswald Chambers
Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.
~ Patricia Briggs