Aright Quotes
47 quotes by 38 authors
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If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the…
— Thomas Traherne
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of…
— David Hume
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If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run…
— Francis Bacon
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God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely…
— Grace Noll Crowell
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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge…
— John Milton
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.…
— James A. Baldwin
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Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between…
— Zoroaster
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its…
— James Russell Lowell
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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the…
— Plato
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God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and…
— Johannes Tauler
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If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we…
— Angelina Grimke
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It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
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It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we…
— George Muller
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You who are born of the hills/ Hill-bred, lover of hills/ Though the world may not you aright/Though your soul be aweary with ill/This will…
— Maxwell Struthers Burt
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot…
— Oswald Chambers
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for…
— Marcus Aurelius
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