Costly Quotes

221 Costly quotes by 187 unique authors

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. — Ellis Peters
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace… — Laurence Sterne
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that… — George Bernard Shaw
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.… — Barack Obama
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every… — Thomas Mann
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is… — Booker T. Washington
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of… — Robertson Davies
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear… — Charles Dickens
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence,… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. — John Piper
...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood… — Timothy Keller
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. — Winston Churchill
To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such… — Ted Dekker
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are… — Ernest Hemingway
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates… — Bob Goff
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. — Winston Churchill
It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love. — Rick Riordan
The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and… — Unknown Author
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure… — Winston Churchill
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a… — James Russell Lowell
I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of… — Malcolm Forbes
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will… — Malcolm Forbes

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