Quotes about Appropriate
sin kidnapped our worship, and grace works to restore it to its rightful owner—God. It is only when God is in his rightful place in our hearts that everything else is in its appropriate place in our lives, and only powerful grace can accomplish this.
- Paul David Tripp
and 16,000 people.
- Numbers 31:46
Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!
- Ezekiel 16:35
Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
- Luke 20:34
As Pierson implies, Christ abolished death so completely that even the term death is no longer appropriate for believers.
- David Jeremiah
The rubric of proportionality had to be observed—that the means were proportional to the objective.
- Desmond Tutu
If we react with more emotion than is appropriate for an isolated incident, it's probably not so isolated. The escalated emotion of this situation is probably an indication of painful ties to the past.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.
- Grover Norquist
Farming cannot take place except in nature; therefore, if nature does not thrive, farming cannot thrive. But we know too that nature includes us. It is not a place into which we reach from some safe standpoint outside it. We are in it and are a part of it while we use it. If it does not thrive, we cannot thrive. The appropriate measure of farming then is the world's health and our health, and this is inescapably one measure.
- Wendell Berry
There are ways that seem to men to be good, the end whereof is in the depths of hell.
- Thomas Merton
Appropriateness of merchandise. The master salesperson analyzes both the prospective buyer and the buyer's needs, and offers only that which is appropriate to both.
- Napoleon Hill