In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice,… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. You won't find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The world may be as evangelized as it will ever get if we attempt to complete the remaining task with a motivation… — Steven C. Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
“I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Iraqi fighters on the front lines, You courageous officers and soldiers who have been fighting valiantly and efficiently - you have restored… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“You say glory, necessity, pride; I say barbarity, greed, arrogance. War is a search for glory, for that particular sense of joy… — Laura M. Hughes Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“There’s no glory in this whole shit. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer,… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory:… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God.… — Guru Angad Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
