Kneeling Quotes

72 Kneeling quotes by 66 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling. — Ambrose Bierce
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. — John Cheever
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. — Billy Wilder
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
What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge… — Colleen Houck
You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right… — Madonna Ciccone
Better die standing than live kneeling. — Pericles
I would rather die standing than live kneeling — Charb
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the… — Etty Hillesum

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