Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.
Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.
Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.
According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.
I soon became convinced. . . that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests. . . By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.