Advent Quote by William Gurnall Download Open image “For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.” — William Gurnall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advent Advent christmas Beggar Cottages Court Kings
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
“The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Labour to get Christ, and through him hopes of heaven, and thou takest the right road to content; thou” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“All error dreads the light of the word, and fears more to be examined by that, than a thief does to be tried before… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“That he who means to be a Christian indeed, must endeavour to maintain the power of holiness and righteousness in his life and conversation.” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Meditate of Christ’s coming to judgment. Surely thou wilt not easily sleep while this trumpet, that shall call all mankind to judgment, shall sound… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“There is no more difference betwixt a hypocrite and an apostate, than betwixt a green apple and a ripe one; come a while hence,… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Never can we truly recover our courage, till we recover our holiness—‘If” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“History reveals that times of suffering for the church have also been times of looking upward. Tribulation has always sobered God’s people and encouraged… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.” — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“On this eve of Christmas, whether you feel yourself to be surrounded by earthly blessings or whether you feel your blessings to be few,… — Kerry van der Vinne Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image