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Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible. -- Billy Graham
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. -- Thomas Carlyle
I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself. -- Bobby Sherman
The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. -- Aldous Huxley
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail. -- Shane Filan
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. -- Hosea Ballou
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so. -- Franz Kafka
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion. -- Jakob Bohme
It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me. -- John James Audubon
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records. -- Billy Sunday
I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country. -- Jack Abramoff
One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure. -- Sarojini Naidu
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. -- Charles Horton Cooley
I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded. -- Nellie Bly
Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail themselves of the opportunity to take institute of religion courses or, if attending a Church school, should take at least one religion course every term. -- Ezra Taft Benson
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next? -- Adam Mansbach
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. -- James Madison
Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of. -- Don Cheadle
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. -- Wilbur Wright
Of what avail are pedigrees? -- Juvenal
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail. -- Aristotle
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail. -- Publilius Syrus
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing -- Samuel Johnson
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. -- Samuel Johnson
Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful. -- Ovid
Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail? -- Li Bai
Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail. -- John Berendt
No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading. -- Ronald Fisher
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? -- Aldo Leopold
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed -- Horace
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends. -- Delmore Schwartz
Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. -- Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. -- Mark Van Doren
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving. -- Cyprian
Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. -- Horace
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. -- Miguel de Cervantes
No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them. -- Napoleon Hill
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction? -- James Joyce
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend? -- Mahatma Gandhi
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail. -- Solon
A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue -- Kabir
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail. -- Aldous Huxley
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail. -- Kabir
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. -- Bernard Baruch
The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus... -- Augustus De Morgan
Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it. -- Herve Falciani
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. -- John Flavel
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. -- Og Mandino
The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts? -- Swami Vivekananda
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail. -- Philip Sidney
Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail! -- Israelmore Ayivor
God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain -- Paul Washer
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. -- Bill Lear
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing. -- Samuel Hahnemann
To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary. -- Hugh Prather
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky. -- Lord Byron
people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice. -- Robin Morgan
By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine. -- Ming-Dao Deng
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him. -- Elizabeth I
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor. -- Martin Luther
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power. -- David W. Earle
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail? -- William Wordsworth
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others. -- Richard Dawkins
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them? -- Martial
It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along. -- Dominique Sutton
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided? -- Zhuangzi
To date, treasure-hunters have followed up clue after clue, including a dagger-marked tree, to no avail. If there is a fortune buried in Handcart Gulch, it is still safely hidden -- Phyllis Flanders Dorset
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people. -- John F. Kennedy
There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation. -- Saint Augustine
The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs. -- Cyprian
It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them. -- Frederick Douglass
Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly. -- Christopher Paolini
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills! -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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