Knelt Quotes

54 quotes by 47 authors

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,… — C.S. Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. — C.S. Lewis
Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we… — J M Coetzee
The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd… — Sonya Hartnett
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. — Tom Waits
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed… — William C. Bryant
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god?… — Stephen King
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though… — Robert Frost
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the… — Edith Wharton
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.… — Margaret Sanger
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would… — Cormac McCarthy
Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision… — Stuart Hill
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because,… — Paulo Coelho
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,… — Anne Rice
I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.… — Doris Lessing
Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark.… — Thomas S. Monson
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly… — Louise GluÌˆck
I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced… — Daniel Handler

Who Wrote These Knelt Quotes

47 authors contributed a total of 54 Knelt Quotes, led by these top contributors: