Anvil Quotes

57 quotes by 51 authors

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. — Henry Ward Beecher
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of… — Mahatma Gandhi
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature,… — Steve Rushin
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and… — Anne Bradstreet
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. — Emile Zola
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! — Charles Schumer
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. — Billy Casper
As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive… — Madeleine Sophie Barat
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a… — J. G. Holland
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. — Angie Harmon
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like… — Dinaw Mengestu
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to… — Saint Dominic
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the… — Charles Spurgeon
If you're a blacksmith, probably the proudest day of your life is when you get your first anvil. How innocent you are, little blacksmith. — Jack Handey
Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly… — Charles R. Swindoll

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