The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“We ought never to lose our tempers with people who, when we find them at fault, begin to snigger. They do so… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Disrespect earns the displeasure of the creator and the creation. — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who has not hoped To outrage an enemy's dignity? Who has not been swept By the wish to hurt? And who has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
