#excess

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #cross #excess-love #god

The best things carried to excess are wrong. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#carried #excess #things #wrong

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#giving #greed #need #scripture #sharing

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#age #checks #excess #interest #later

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. ↗

— Demosthenes

#excessive #free #good #security #states

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#aggressive #back #care #cruel #domestic

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#bankruptcy #been #billion #businesses #excess

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

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Crime is a product of social excess. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#excess #product #social