Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good.
Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Bragging often precedes begging.
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.
The vision always precedes the realization
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.
If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again. . . it's funner that way.
Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
