Horace Quotes

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

There are certain emergencies of nations, in which expedients, that in the ordinary state of things ought to be forborne, become essential to the public weal.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?” “They’re gods,” Carter said. “They can do stuff like that.

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

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I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I prayed earnestly to God to help me, and I well remember that I attributed my success to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marvelled how generally I was aided.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

We will find grace to help us when we need it