#permits

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#after #antiquity #applied #apply #conscience

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#belligerent #disgrace #every #individual #itself

You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#anybody #believe #democratization #eliminating #great

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#challenge #direction #father #god #i

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cheers #criticism #democracy #permits #two

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#dedicate #devotion #himself #his #lies

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#endure #god #him #lack #man

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#headlines #heart #law #letter #love

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#concerns #earth #economic #feet #harden