Altars Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altars Humility Offers Sacrifice Should Wish
“Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“Humility is, "nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord. — Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami Copy Share Image
“Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's… — Virginia H. Pearce Copy Share Image
“Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain… — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Copy Share Image
“Humility means the willingness to look in the mirror of God’s Word and being glad that whatever we see there has already been covered… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have. — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none… — William Booth Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise… — Lord Byron Copy Share
For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit. After the first movie, when I was crying at the altar, whenever I would think about it, I would get chills for months after the first "Best Man" because I had to go to that place.… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share