Kneel Quotes
134 quotes by 113 authors
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
— Thomas Adams
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I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden…
— A. Whitney Brown
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.
— Hippolyte Taine
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made…
— Thomas Adams
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
— Abraham Lincoln
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If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if…
— Josephine Bakhita
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Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the…
— Pope John Paul II
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O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.
— Ibn Hazm
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
— Rumi
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In the end, you will always kneel.
— Tom Hiddleston
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All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it…
— Aldo Leopold
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
— Chinua Achebe
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel.…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
— Joe Lieberman
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Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked…
— John Waters
Who Wrote These Kneel Quotes
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