A Quote by Paul de Rapin

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

Paul de Rapin

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Imposed Increases Obstacles Often Our Proportion Strength

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Paul de Rapin
March 25, 1661 - 1725

Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are real, and they affect the way police departments have acted toward Black Americans.

Conor Lamb

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Claude Bernard

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

William Hazlitt

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

David Platt

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

Bertrand Russell

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Paul Lafargue

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

Luc de Clapiers

A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

Louis Tice

There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

Marvin J. Ashton

We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.