A Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Food Hard How Know Rest Rich

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English - Novelist
August 14, 1802 - October 15, 1838

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

John Newton

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

Guy Finley

Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.

Guy Finley

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

J. C. Ryle

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

Guy Finley

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

Lisa Kleypas

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

J. R. R. Tolkien

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Leo Tolstoy

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

William Shakespeare

Money is a needful and precious thing

Louisa May Alcott

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!