a necessary condition QUOTES

1 " Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith. "

― Andrew Murray , With Christ in the School of Prayer

2 " On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , North and South

3 " For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable, expecting material comfort from virtue and moral edification from wealth. "

― Marcel Proust , The Guermantes Way

4 " Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. "

― Sholem Asch

5 " Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done. "

― Tim Kreider

6 " [The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational. "

― R.C. Sproul

7 " Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence. "

8 " History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. "