#spur

Avarice, the spur of industry. ↗

— David Hume

#industry #spur

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#burden #control #create #economic #economic growth

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. ↗

— Harold W. Dodds

#best #each #force #insecurity #never

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#applause #end #minds #noble #ones

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. ↗

— George Carey

#between #dialogue #faiths #given #great

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#difficulties #exertion #greater #should #spur

Remember this; or you may fall into error by fixing your minds so much upon the faith which is the channel of salvation as to forget the grace which is the fountain and source even of faith itself. [. . .] Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. [. . .] Never make a Christ out of your faith, nor think of as if it were the independent source of your salvation. Our life is found in “looking unto Jesus,” not in looking to our own faith. [. . .] The peace within the soul is not derived from the contemplation of our own faith; but it comes to us from Him who is our peace. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#charles-spurgeon #grace #faith

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#prejudice #men

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#competition #done #forces #globalization #industry

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. ↗

— James Payn

#enough #fact #having #him #his