The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all but had been applied in various churches perhaps however with no strict consistency.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The seven wise men of Greece so famous for their wisdom all the world over acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home I think can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

It's not that our family has no taste it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith and inconsistent with it. But all science in fact rests on a basis of faith for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter in mind and as mind in emotion as emotion etc.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it and apply more energy and time to it and more consistency you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice loving mercy and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion a winner a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service.

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11 which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design not the primary goal in design.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs rather than contemplation of old programs.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.