We must conclude that, being necessary to God by a necessity which is called "hypothetical", (that is, because God so willed it), the Blessed Virgin is all the more necessary for men to attain their final end. Consequently we must not place devotion to her on the same level as devotion to the other saints as if it were merely something optional.
Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the necessity of more fundamental and persistent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context.
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Power is the recognition of necessity.
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.