Above All Things Quotes

94 Above All Things quotes by 78 unique authors

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world. — Tullian Tchividjian
Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful… — Saint Francis de Sales
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. — Thomas Carlyle
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who… — W. Somerset Maugham
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that… — Sammy Davis, Jr.
I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle… — Samuel Pepys
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself. — Carter G. Woodson
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? — Jeremiah
Above all things, reverence yourself. — Pythagoras
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and… — James Larkin
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize… — Albert Pike
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. — Pythagoras
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor… — Franz Schubert
Human nature is above all things lazy. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the… — Hermann Hesse

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