#ourselves

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. ↗

— Martin Luther

#ourselves #permitting #see #seized #things

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. ↗

— William James

#endured #fashioned #habitually #hell #hereafter

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously. ↗

— Pras Michel

#better #feel #grow #grown #i

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#characters #come #creating #how #i

I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bigger #bigger picture #care #deal #families

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. ↗

— Washington Irving

#effected #enemy #harm #least #most

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#avoid #brought #defend #duty #endeavor

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves. ↗

— John Jewel

#know #mind #ourselves #us #word

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#best #build #built #could #else

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #believe #born #express #gift