A Man On His Knees Quotes

#1. In Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. He lay gazing at the other man's knees, wondering how God had managed to make such a mundane body part so completely beautiful on this man.

Belinda McBride

#3. Your smile would bring a lesser man to his knees. But if you wore your glasses and smiled at me like that, it would topple me.

Sawyer Bennett

#4. A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

Robert M

#5. Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#6. For when down on the knees
The man (or god) stretches the arms
In giving,
It is no accident the hands
Are curled like bowls or cups,
For he offers self, yet
Begs it back again.

Edith Tiempo

#7. Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

Johnny Cash

#8. There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

Charlie Daniels

#9. Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock
In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child
Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild
Beast with the nature of a beast could mock
A desperate man making a last appeal
Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!

Catullus

#10. One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.

Mary Gaitskill

#11. When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#13. A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#14. Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.

Dwight L. Moody

#15. What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#16. A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

Beth Moore

#17. A man never got a woman back ... not by begging on his knees.

Leonard Cohen

#18. You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God
he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, Behold I am vile.

Dwight L. Moody

#19. A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Pythagoras

#20. I absolutely love you, Briony, and I am on my knees. So we're getting married - right? But say it fast before we get shot.
Only Jack would ask - if you could call it asking - in the middle of a battlefield, with a man lying dead at his feet.

Christine Feehan

#21. A man is powerful on his knees.

Corrie Ten Boom

#22. Gradually, the physical cruelty and punishment beatings started and it got worse. He'd be on his knees to try to teach me how to fight, so my father made out. Whack! His hand would slap in to my face with the full force might of a 6ft 4in 18st man!

Stephen Richards

#23. Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

Jim Elliot

#24. Yeah, equal pay for equal work and our bodies ourselves and Gloria Steinem and all that jazz ... but in that dusty dark little corner of every woman's heart where we keep our maps of Tierra del Fuego lives the hunger to fetch a powerful man his slippers on her hands and knees.

Tiffany Reisz

#25. So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.

James Schannep