Quotes About Means

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

Is God an end or is He a means?

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.