Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 4

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
A.B. Simpson
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Prayer is the voice of faith.
William Van Home
When I have a problem I pray about it and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
J. L. Kraft
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Joseph Scriven
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
A.B. Simpson
Help me to work and pray Help me to live each day That all I do may say Thy kingdom come.
A.B. Simpson
Pray always pray beneath sins heaviest load Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray always pray though weary faint and lone Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
A.B. Simpson
Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
A.B. Simpson
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Power is the recognition of necessity.
Abraham Rotstein
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.
L.M. Montgomery
Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Grenville Kleiser
A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older and now I am.
Margaret Atwood
Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.
Bob Rae
This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.
Nellie McClung
Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.
Joseph Howe
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.
John G. Diefenbaker
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
Tommy Douglas
He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing nor left wing nor any wing.
Robert Stanfield
Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie McClung
Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.
John A. Macdonald
One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.
Joe Clark
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
Richard J. Needham
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.
John A. Macdonald
I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.
Joey Smallwood
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
J. K. Galbraith
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
Nellie McClung
The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.
Earle Birney
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
Bernard Lonergan
People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.
Richard J. Needham
I only have to stop the puck not beat it to death.
Don Beaupre
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
Frank Underhill
There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others but there is no Canadian patriotism and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.
Henri Bourassa
My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.
Karl Beveridge
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Follow your heart and you perish.
Margaret Laurence
Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.
Bruce Hutchison
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.
Ivan Eyre
Some day they will know what I mean.
Tom Thomson
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
Lord Beaverbrook
Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
It is not how old you are but how you are old.
Marie Dressier
When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'
John A. Macdonald
When things come to the worst they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Mavis Gallant
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Laurence J. Peter
I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't get the fourth without it.
Mordecai Richler
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
Grenville Kleiser
Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.
Robert W. Service
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Leacock