Arms Quote by Philip Massinger

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

— Martin Luther

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.”

— A.W. Tozer

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the…

— Edward Gibbon

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no…

— Sally Mann

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

— George Crook

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the…

— John Stokes

As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.…

— David Steindl-Rast

The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the…

— Morris Berman

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

— Richard M. Weaver