Prostrate Quotes

41 quotes by 38 authors

At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling… — Mata Amritanandamayi
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,… — Martin Luther
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if… — Brother Lawrence
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the… — Thomas Love Peacock
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. — Lydia M. Child
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry… — Charlaine Harris
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to… — Charlaine Harris
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All… — Caleb Carr
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and… — Henry David Thoreau
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after… — Mark Helprin
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to… — Henry Miller
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are… — Charles Inglis
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. — Thomas Ken
He is not drunk, who from the floor, Can rise again and drink some more; But he is drunk who prostrate lies, And cannot drink,… — Omar Khayyam
You prostrate religiously--yet, YOU kill thou bredren and create war among the people, including YOUR PEOPLE. Do you even know the love of GOD? — Wandini
This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.… — Henry David Thoreau

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