Quotes about Adequate
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
- E Stanley Jones
Let us resolve to pray much for ministers. Their office is no light one if they do their duty. They need the help of many intercessions from all praying people. They have not only their own souls to care for but also the souls of others. No wonder Paul cries, Who is adequate for these things? (2 Corinthians 2:16). If we never prayed for ministers before, let us begin to do it this day.
- JC Ryle
If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
- Craig Groeschel
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
- Brennan Manning
Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
- Herman Melville
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
- Erica Jong
The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
- William James