Surely Quotes

1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. — Douglas Horton
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air,… — Amy Carmichael
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,… — Arnold Bennett
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can… — William Ralph Inge
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. — Robert Breault
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,… — Elbert Hubbard
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive… — Khalil Gibran
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with… — H. L. Mencken
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it,… — Benjamin Peirce
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. — Lewis Thomas
This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised. — Charles Lamb
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected… — David Hume
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point… — Richard Dawkins
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of… — Nelson Mandela
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails. — Stephen Colbert
When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I… — Martin Luther
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing… — Pierre Loti
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not… — John Calvin
Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ. — William Carey

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