All Richard Chenevix Trench Quotes
- Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold… Earth
- If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If,… Angel
- For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love. Army
- Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… Amber
- Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. Editing
- Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. Close
- Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. Amber
- None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. Fill
- We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not… Always Strong
- There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its… Attended
- The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind's eye the… Best