A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another. . . Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.
The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.
The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.
It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer. . . . Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.
Necessity knows no rules.
Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself
What you have to do is break all the rules.
I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.
If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
Imagination rules the world.
I don't know the rules of grammar. . . If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.
If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.