But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.
I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people.
Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.
Worry is interest paid before it's due.
. . . 99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.
I am due at the page.
Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
Being the first Olympic medallist of my country means that I have some obligations and it was a very tough job for me to resume a proper training schedule due to the (new) status I have in my country.
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.
One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.