Top 100 Be His Quotes
#1. All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.
Karl Barth
#2. Barsavi realized something that too many men in the city were slow to grasp; an idea that he reinforced years later when he took the Berangias sisters to be his primary enforcers. He was wise enough to understand that the women of Camorr could be underestimated only at great peril to one's health.
Scott Lynch
#3. He's inviting me to heal, but also to see my most meaningful calling: to be His healing to the hurting. My own brokenness, driving me into Christ's, is exactly where I can touch the brokenhearted. Our
Ann Voskamp
#4. Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose fellow Senator John Edwards to be his running mate. Asked about Edwards' lack of foreign policy experience, Kerry revealed his new campaign slogan, 'I Promise Not to Die.'
Dennis Miller
#5. This beautiful, perfect in every way, eternal creature was finally about to be his forever. The smile that crept onto his lips felt unreal, like he'd stolen something that should never have belonged to him, but had come to be his most treasured possession.
Kiersten Fay
#6. "I don't know; Killers are sort of romantic. Imagine your dying with his hands around his throat. He'd strangle the life out of you, and the last thing you would see would be his face."
L.J.Smith
#7. Buttercup sat up in bed. It must be his teeth. The farm boy did have good teeth, give credit where credit was due.
William Goldman
#8. A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
Thomas Jefferson
#9. Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
Thomas Traherne
#10. He stops to look at a garbage can. He realizes the garbage can will never be his friend and cannot help him. So he wanders away.
Noah Cicero
#11. He dropped the joint in the dirt and ran inside. It wasn't his first, and wouldn't be his last. The joint, that is. Not the kid. He was pretty sure, at this point, that he would never have sexual relations with his wife again.
Allie Burke
#12. He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.
Jim Thompson
#14. Of whomsoever I had been Master (Mawla), Ali here is to be his Master. O Allah, be a supporter of whoever supports him (Ali) and an enemy of whoever opposes him.
Anonymous
#15. And truly, God does not make known his will to us, that the knowledge of it may perish with us; but that we may be his witnesses to posterity and that they may deliver the knowledge received through us, from hand to hand, (as we say,) to their descendants.
John Calvin
#16. I love him. I tried to love him from afar. I tried to be his friend. I tried to make him mine. But now, I'm trying to let go.
MsButterfly
#17. God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
Ann Voskamp
#18. The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
Theodore Roosevelt
#19. The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#20. Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.
Judi McLeod
#21. Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
John Owen
#22. Wish him a happy birthday for me. And assure him it will be his last. But yours is coming, isn't it? I don't doubt we'll spend it together. Until we meet again, Maven
Victoria Aveyard
#23. Satan ... is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.
Pat Robertson
#24. God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.
Elizabeth George
#25. He wasn't a man to give love easily. But once he did, Morgan knew she'd be his own personal queen, because that was the way he made her feel every day and every time he looked at her.
Jennifer Probst
#26. Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. We are strange indeed among all the plants and animals, who unlike us know their place, and if they think of God at all do not imagine him to be their kin, or themselves to be his heirs.
Orson Scott Card
#28. Someone once said to me that I've always been his, and that even if he never got to keep me, I'd still be his. Well I'm yours, Ryan, and even if you have to leave me, I'll always be yours.
Kate McCarthy
#29. Steve said, "I don't know. I really don't. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be." His answer felt like truth to me. Not an easy truth, but truth.
Brene Brown
#30. May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
Saint Ignatius
#31. I didn't know how to own him with the same surety. I didn't know how to want things for us. But he was teaching me how to be his.
C.D. Reiss
#32. Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?
William Shakespeare
#33. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.
Charles Spurgeon
#34. As he stared down at River's lips, swollen from his kisses, there was no question she would be his. The fire within her matched his.
Donna Grant
#35. That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and wor.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#36. If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled.
Lynn Dove
#37. While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
James Green Somerville
#38. On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#39. Shall any be his own artificer? or can there elsewhere be derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us, save from thee, O Lord, in whom essence and life are one? for Thou Thyself art supremely Essence and Life.
Augustine Of Hippo
#40. Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His.
Oswald Chambers
#41. The negro's story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.
Colson Whitehead
#42. I thought of him now-in his room-watching the sunrise; hoping I should soon come to say I would stay with him and be his. I longed to be his; I panted to return; it was not too late.
Charlotte Bronte
#43. The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
Jonathan Swift
#44. Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.
Preston Sturges
#46. Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#47. They can hear lies, he realized. But not thoughts. He could hide things, he didn't have to lie. Silence could be his shield.
Anthony Ryan
#48. [on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the sign of a truly great actor, to be able to maintain that.
Michael Haneke
#49. A moment would come, and then another, and then another. These moments would be his life.
Chad Harbach
#50. He kisses like ... like it could be his job." Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. "Like a male prostitute?
Jenny Han
#51. I want to be his love slave. An image of me in a black corset wearing a collar with a leash attached to it pops into my head. Maybe stupid Lydia was right to cut the smut from the book club for a while.
Helena Hunting
#52. No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
Karan Johar
#53. He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him ... and fear him.
George R R Martin
#54. If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells.
George MacDonald
#55. When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
Susan B. Anthony
#56. Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
Anne Rice
#57. Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
Paracelsus
#58. You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
Rosemary Rawlins
#59. Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Alone and friendless, what would be his lot in the strange land to which he was going? For a time Joseph gave himself up to uncontrolled grief and terror. But, in the providence of God, even this experience was to be a blessing to him.
Ellen G. White
#61. There will soon be no more priests ... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest.
Walt Whitman
#62. I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#63. My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.
Stormie O'martian
#64. Heart-to-heart journaling is a dialogue with God where both you and God are talking and you are recording it on paper. Heart-to-heart journaling is simply writing out your thoughts to God and what you sense to be His answer or response to you.
Linda Boone
#65. The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#66. On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.
David Clement-Davies
#68. Yes, the world is broken. But don't be offended by it. Instead, thank God that He's intervened in it, and He's going to restore it to everything it was meant to be. His kingdom is breaking through, bit by bit. Recognize it, and wonder at it.
Brant Hansen
#69. My son is fully vaccinated, but there is one immunization on the standard schedule that he did not receive on time. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hep B administered to most babies immediately after birth.
Eula Biss
#70. Stone killer, said Carlos, like that might be his favorite flavor of pie.
William Gibson
#71. The Devil had granted my wish to watch him sleep, but granted it in his usual cruel fashion, making a pain of a pleasure. Yet pleasure there was. I still desired to watch over him, be his dragon against Botts.
Maria McCann
#72. You might be his spouse,
but I am his lovely boss.
Toba Beta
#73. She was meant to be his destruction ... A pawn played in a perilous game between father and son ... Yet, her strength was more than either man could imagine.As Maddy learns to save herself ... She becomes the one thing that could set the son free
M.S. Willis
#74. Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.
Kevin Sampson
#75. But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
Neil LaBute
#76. He had also decided on a new course that filled him with joy - he would ask Rapunzel to be his wife.
Melanie Dickerson
#77. The FBI announced today that they are now looking for Osama bin Laden's financial adviser. You think this guy is in demand. How good can he be? his top client is living in a cave and driving a donkey. It doesn't sound like he is getting the best return on his investments to me.
Jay Leno
#78. He will not tell them that it lives, that it escaped them, That will be his treasured secret.
Karen Maitland
#79. Maybe someday I'll be his and he'll be mine. And space or time won't matter because we were meant to be.
But I won't hold my breath. Life doesn't usually work out the way we hope.
Amber L. Johnson
#80. This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.
Thomas S. Monson
#81. Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist
C. Wright Mills
#83. Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. I know this guy. All his life he loved this girl who was perfect in every way but just when he finally convinced her to be his and they're deliriously happy, he went and messed everything up.
Henry to Elsie-book 5
June Gray
#85. The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
Pierre Trudeau
#86. The male ghost looked God-awful old and starved and moth-eaten. The female ghost looked young enough to be his daughter, sleek, bouncy, and full of hell
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#87. God wanted Abram to be his friend, and friends trust each other, and you can't learn to trust someone without a little risk and uncertainty and vulnerability.
John Ortberg
#88. The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
#89. he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.
John Calvin
#90. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
Sigmund Freud
#91. Murray is a man dedicated to serving Christ. His greatest joy is to respond in faithful obedience when his master calls. "There can be no higher and more ennobling privilege than to have the Lord of the universe as one's Owner and Master and to be his accredited representative on earth.
Chris A. Vlachos
#92. People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.
Peter Jackson
#93. What she was doing was, she was letting it be his idea. She was walking him along, holding his hand tightly enough to lead him, loosely enough for him to be unaware of it. She was an absolute natural. Or maybe all women could do that to all men, if they wanted to.
Ben H. Winters
#94. Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
Walter Scott
#95. Be very careful what you try with that. I'm not as strong as I should be." His breath was ragged, and irregular. "And you are stronger than you know.
Tyra Lynn
#96. Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.
Lang Leav
#97. If I was to be his for eternity, fine. He might own my body. He would never own my soul.
Pepper Winters
#98. Treated by his own people as one of them yet not one of them, he couldn't help but be aware of the contradictions inherent in a society that was supposed to be his, but seemed to have no place for him.
Lesley Hazleton
#99. God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
James Dobson
#100. I grinned at Daemon and held up a bulb that was so green it almost matched his eyes. I decided it was going to be his bulb.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
