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“If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.”

Ifs Way Impossible Humanitarian Optimistic Impossibility Insistence There Is Always A Way

“The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.”

Humans May Spirit Order Grace Hero Delight Backgrounds Platforms Impossibility Grace Of God Breakdown Spirit Of God

Book:The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David

Source: The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David

“When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.”

World Made States Government Nations Realizing Checks Dry Abundance Fund Extensions Bureaucracy Fountain Impossibility Loan Borrowing Negotiating Dry Up

Book:As We Go Marching

Source: As We Go Marching

“Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.”

Christianity Virtue Contrary Reasonable Impossibility

Author:Greg L. Bahnsen

“A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.”

Knows Men World May Seems Earth Lying Poet Please Members Lows Ancient Regimes Salt Lowest Worldly Impossibility Aristocracy Outcast Sidelines Estimation Salt Of The Earth

Author:Walter Martin

“You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.”

Pain Suffering Behinds Path Written Greatness Hardship Passages Impossibility Behind You Treading

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.”

Basketball Perfection Strive Coaching Nba Impossibility Do The Best Striving For Perfection

Author:John Wooden

“If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.”

Ifs Needs Dream Prayer Half Vision Plans Impossible Havens Scared Circles Overwhelmed Impossibility Our Prayers

Author:Mark Batterson

“Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.”

Space Doors Refugee Impossibility

Author:Edith Cavell

“Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.”

Problem Existence Depends Words Of Wisdom Solutions Proof Sufficient Metaphysics Impossibility Downfall

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

“Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.”

Achievement Perception Perseverance Impossibility Courage And Perseverance

Author:Wes Fesler

“Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.”

Christian Faith Laughing Changed Obstacles Impossibility

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.”

Trying Inspiring Convinced Frustration Impossibility

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.”

Inspirational Seems Influence Anticipation Depressing Impossibility Animated Enviromental

Book:Works

Source: Works

“It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.”

Ideas Impossible Missing Scientist Mark Conservative Engineers Impossibility Margins Competent Investigating Preconceived Ideas Scientists And Engineers

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.”

Seems Science Found Easy Impossible Missing Invention Impossibility Inventor

Book:Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.

Source: Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.

“My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from DNA of the first reproducing species ... [In fact] the only reason which I have for beginning to think of believing in a First Cause god is the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms.”

Thinking Firsts Believe Reason Facts Causes Pieces Theory Evidence Accounts Species Relevant Providing Organisms Dna Impossibility Reproducing My One And Only

Author:Antony Flew

“There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works. Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ alone.”

Men Needs Mind Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Salvation Fallen Good Work Impossibility Faith In Jesus Christ Alone

Book:Faith and Works

Source: Faith and Works

“Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.”

Firsts Different Play Happens Waiting Audience Written Things Happen Seats Impossibility Theoretical Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Vivian Mercier

“Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.”

Feels Firsts Life Is Adults Tables Absence Accomplishment Relief Impossibility Competence Frogs Periodic Table Professional Competence

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.”

Culture Leadership Learning Possibility Fruit Plates Impossibility

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.”

Wisdom Politics Poor Economy Independent Independence Liberalism Impossibility

Book:Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc

Source: Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc

“When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.”

Possibility Impossibility

Book:Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

“There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.”

Impossible Limitation Impossibility Unbelief

Book:Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer

“By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.”

Want Difficult Sides Grace Plans Impossible Possibility Goes On Circumstances Advantage Dare Breathe Impossibility Grace Of God Provision Difficult Things Impart

Book:Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power

Source: Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power

“A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.”

Logical Impossibility Multicultural Multicultural Society

Author:Satoshi Kanazawa

“We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come.”

Needs Looks Helping Christian Religion Prayer Lord Impossibility

Author:Isobel Miller Kuhn

“That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.”

Men Humans Attitude Situation Acceptance Conscious Universal Blame Guilt Factors Recognition Unconscious Existential Participation Impossibility Inhumanity Conscious And Unconscious Inhumanity To Man

Author:Rollo May

“Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.”

Years Risk Lows Bases Management Odd Consistent Impossibility Risk Management Volatility

Author:George Soros

“The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.”

Source: The Intelligent Universe

“When you do your best, there is no impossibility.”

Motivation Fighter Impossibility

Author:Nonito Donaire

“You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.”

World Children Our Children Attraction Law Of Attraction Your Children Mates Impossibility Secret Law Of Attraction Free Yourself

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.”

World Attitude Yesterday Impossibility World History

Author:Jack Kent Cooke

“They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.”

Life Enough Care Lying Universe Asks Fool Pages Draws Philosopher Ugly Cosmos Mathematician Impossibility Pretty Picture

Book:The Book of Blood and Shadow

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

“The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”

Existence Prove Impossibility

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.”

Thinking Christian Father Forget Secret Worry Indifference Impossibility Quietness

Author:Oswald Chambers

“When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”

“Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowehere else does the inviolable holiness of God, the impossibility of overlooking the guilt of man stand out more plainly; but nowhere else does the limitless mercy of God, which utterly transcends all human standards, stand out more clearly and plainly.”

Men Humans Doe Christ Standards Crosses Mercy Guilt Perceive Holiness Standing Out Impossibility Limitless Mercy Of God Overlooking Holiness Of God

Author:Emil Brunner

“Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.”

Impossibility

Book:The Epistle to the Romans

Source: The Epistle to the Romans

“Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.”

Accepting Difficulty Impossibility

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .”

Pursue Impossibility Madmen

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“You want to hire #‎ entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.”

People Want Problem Opportunity Natural Entrepreneur Impossibility Problem Solvers

Author:Gurbaksh Chahal

“Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.”

World Made Stories Stuff Written Possibility This World Painful Classic Bites Short Story Tenderness Impossibility Bittersweet Bite Me

Author:Michael Chabon

“When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.”

Lays Yield Impossibility

Book:Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

“When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem”

Ifs Men Real Problem Religious Failing Modern Produce Despair Bounds Spheres Cosmic Heroism Impossibility Modern Man Personal Love Utter Despair

Book:The Denial of Death

Source: The Denial of Death

“The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.”

Conditions Miracle Difficulty Impossibility Potatoes

Author:Angus Buchan

“An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.”

Men Mind Mean Earth Desire Speak Poet Poetic Verses Impossibility Harmonious Negation Duplication

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named. There He is now the Man in the Glory. Once more let me state it, the Lord Jesus Christ is corporeally present in the highest heaven. Everything depends on this. If His physical resurrection and corporeal presence in the highest heaven is denied, His present work and future work are an impossibility, and we rob ourselves of every comfort joy and peace. Then, too, His atoning work on the cross has no meaning for us.”

“Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.”

Today Tomorrow Miracle Impossibility Global Issues

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.”

Ifs Men Believe Long Country Dies Differences Situation Blood Friends My Friends Conquer Devoted Believe In Me Retreat Conquest Impossibility

Author:James Wolfe

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