Needful Quotes

"(MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer) ordered Nelson Eddy to marry. Eddy agreed, but he didn`t want a virgin bride or some insatiable creature, and Mayer understood. Sometimes the least sexual marriages last the longest, so long as it`s mutual ... Mayer found him an older divorcée who`d been married to a movie director - she was wise to the ways of Tinseltown, she was not sexually demanding or needful, and she was well-pleased to live the comfortable life of a movie star`s wife."

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father`s power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God`s will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Now it followeth, that we consider how necessary and needful it is for us to be guided by the word of God, in the whole trade of our life.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.