An ancient custom obtains force of nature.
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.
When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord and his prophets have repeatedly told us, that the fruits of the gospel are the only objectives worthy of life's full efforts. Their possessor obtains true wealth - wealth in the Lord's view of values. We need constantly to deepen our understandings and sharpen our realization of what the fruits of the gospel are. The Lord has defined them as. . . peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
Patience obtains everything.
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of the universal and subjective will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of history in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity.
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost?. . . He who is protected by her will be saved; he who is not will be lost.
But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.
