Quotes about Stability

The roots of the strongest tree grow deep.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. (Isaiah 28:14—15)

Chaos, then, is the enemy of growth. Disorganization, sloppiness, and inattention generally introduce the kind of instability that weakens rather than strengthens. Where there is no order there will likely be little in the environment that sustains and nourishes. Life needs to be ordered.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.