Kneeling Quotes
72 quotes by 68 authors
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Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always…
— F B Meyer
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Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain…
— Luigi Orione
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With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and humbly asking together…
— Neil L. Andersen
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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground…
— E. V. Lucas
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Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.
— Herman Melville
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I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so…
— Eberhard Bethge
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
— Oscar Wilde
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You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have…
— Thomas Merton
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When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him…
— Michael Drayton
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As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first…
— Michael Morpurgo
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I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
— John Cheever
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
— Billy Wilder
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When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I…
— Simon Newcomb
Who Wrote These Kneeling Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 72 Kneeling Quotes, led by these top contributors: