Threefold Quotes

#1. I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.

Ameen Rihani

#2. Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking
being awake
consciousness.

Novalis

#3. When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

Jentezen Franklin

#4. Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Henri Poincare

#5. Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

John Bevere

#6. The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

Mike Bickle

#7. A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

Janeane Garofalo

#8. Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#9. Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unforeseeability of the future.

Brian Boyd

#10. The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees

Veronika Skvortsova

#11. The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Confucius

#12. One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

Anne Bronte

#13. In fact, if anybody on the Somme battlefield is overdue to be treated with a little pathos it is not the attackers, with their threefold artillery superiority, total control of the air and copious reserves of of manpower, but rather the German defenders opposite.

Alexander Watson

#14. One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change ...

Viktor E. Frankl

#15. Thomas seems to be implying a threefold, originally Neoplatonic, model that he would have known through the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, comprising (1) God in God-self; (2) the exitus, or procession of creatures from God; and finally (3) the reditus, or the return of creatures to God.

Bernard McGinn

#16. Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold - large, male and American.

Kate Atkinson

#17. We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Church - first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership of the Church wherever they may be; third, to move forward the work of salvation for the dead.

Ezra Taft Benson

#18. The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

Sigmund Freud

#19. Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Horace

#20. The calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one's own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one's inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

George Steiner

#21. Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare ... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

Victor Hugo

#23. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

Henry Miller

#24. Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed through social position and companionship.

Manly P. Hall

#25. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Friedrich Schiller

#26. And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Laura Frantz

#27. Come, let us be bored together

Alexandre Dumas

#28. An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Gene Fowler

#29. Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

Jaggi Vasudev

#30. Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

Lynn Dickey

#31. That was the sort of thing crazy people did - instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.

Michel Faber

#32. If you walk with the Lord on earth, you also will walk with Him in Heaven. If you walk away from the Lord on earth, you will walk away from Him, right into eternity.

Greg Laurie

#33. In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

Spencer Bachus

#34. Even a committed realist will concede that there are many situations where an absolute standard of truth is unavailable. And yet, confronted with such situations, we often continue to act as if right and wrong are the relevant yardsticks.

Kathryn Schulz