Quotes About Adequacy

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task   I

Keep your powder dry.

He had to do what He did (redeem) that you might have what He is (life). Here is the "much more" of your salvation: Christ in the present tense! Not what He was—that would condemn you. And not just what He will be—that would only tantalize you. But He gives you all the overwhelming adequacy of all that He is right now for every step of the way and for every bend in the road.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

In conclusion, to assure omega-3 adequacy, unless blood tests demonstrate otherwise, I recommend 100 to 200 milligrams a day of DHA, plus 1 tablespoon of ground flax seeds for ALA. Bear in mind: all nutrients can be harmful in deficiency or excess.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

He needs little who desires but little.

Not too much, not too less, you feel me, I give them the perfect amount of me, and that's why people love me so much.

A good approach to something requires enough resources to handle the demands of that activity.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es

everything he needed

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly

what matters for each of us is the adequacy and truth of what we come to believe is the meaning of life—and therefore the source from which we derive our sense of identity, purpose, ethics and community.

Good enough, never is.

Wisdom teaches us to embrace both the adequacy and the limitations of our God-talk, to keep the two in tension. Perhaps accepting that paradox is true faith.