The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It… — Saint Dominic Copy Share Image
Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument. — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head.… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image