Quotes by Scottish Authors - Page 5

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
Oswald Chambers
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
Oswald Chambers
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
Oswald Chambers
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
Oswald Chambers
We have to pray with our eyes on God not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.
John Laidlaw
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
Oswald Chambers
Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
Oswald Chambers
It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally but of working wonders in a man's disposition.
Oswald Chambers
There is no hope but in prayer.
Andrew Bonar
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
William Drummond
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
David Hume
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.
John A. Macdonald
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
Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
Thomas Carlyle
Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
We conquer by continuing.
George Matheson
This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.
George MacDonald
When we believe that God is Father we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay
The human race has been set up. Someone somewhere is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
Billy Connolly
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
John Witherspoon
When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'
John A. Macdonald
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas Carlyle
Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.
George MacDonald
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Sir Walter Scott
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Alexander Smith
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
To bear is to conquer our fate.
Thomas Campbell
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson
They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Thomas Carlyle
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.
John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.
Robert Burns
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor a fast-flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave He passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Thomas Carlyle
If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Among the changing months May stands confest The sweetest and in fairest colors dressed.
James Thomson
A fool and his money are soon parted.
George Buchanan
To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps.
Alexander D. Fleming
Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.
Samuel Smiles
Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
James Drummond Burns