#stain

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. ↗

— William Ames

#point #sanctification #sin #stain #starting

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time. ↗

— John Anderson

#both #chance #confidence #dealing #economic

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#choice #choices #contraception #good #i

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#forsake #forsaken #longer #sin

It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me. ↗

— Alice Barrett

#coming #even #gone #how #i

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#nature #sustainable-development #art

When you doubt, abstain. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doubt #you

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. ↗

— David Bowie

#music #power #prove #sustaining #wanted

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it. ↗

— Steve Brown

#corporate #creative #experiment #get #gives