Quotes by Writers - Page 9

We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
Syrus
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend with the generous energy of a father and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
François Fénelon
Do as we say and not as we do.
Giovanni Boccaccio
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Vavasor Powell
Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
Andrew Murray
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Andrew Murray
Do not strive in your own strength cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you and works in you. Strive in prayer let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Andrew Murray
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.
Francois de Fenelon
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
Andrew Murray
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
Voltaire
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
Herman Melville
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."
Andrew Murray
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andrew Murray
While others still slept He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.
Andrew Murray
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
Francois de Fenelon
Abiding fully means praying much.
Andrew Murray
Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois de Fenelon
It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld
We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
Voltaire
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.
Karl Kraus
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Samuel Johnson
A woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Richard Steele
Man has bought brains but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.
Emma Goldman
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.
M.F.K. Fisher
The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Clear your mind of "can't."
Samuel Johnson
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracián
To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Charles Caleb Colton
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Elbert Hubbard
Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.
Pat McCormick
I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.
Red Skelton
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles de Gaulle
Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.
Maury Amsterdam
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
Enoch Powell
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
Goethe
The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.
Oliver Goldsmith
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
Samuel Johnson
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
Cyril Connolly