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We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
- Genesis 50:2
With each temptation, Jesus, without hesitation, quoted Scripture that refuted Satan's temptation. Truth is powerful. The more saturated we are with truth, the more powerful we'll be in resisting our temptations. And the more we'll naturally direct our cravings where they should be directed—to the Author of all truth.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Firstly, indeed, because man is directed to God, as to an end that surpasses the grasp of his reason: "The eye hath not seen, O God, besides Thee, what things Thou hast prepared for them that wait for Thee" (Isa. 66:4). But the end must first be known by men who are to direct their thoughts and actions to the end.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
- Billy Graham
To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.
- Marcus Aurelius
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
- Walt Whitman
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
- Alice Walker
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
- John Adams