Top 100 Given To Quotes
#1. The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men ... Every Christian is to be a witness;
every follower of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#2. Every year when I stands first in my class, Ma gives me the advice: Daughter, she say, never be gamandi. What you have, given to you by God. You just a basket into which God puts the flowers. Flowers not belong to you. They belongs to God. Same way, your clever belong to God.
Thrity Umrigar
#3. The ability to dream is the most important human resource given to man by God.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. He was a consummate politician
which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.
Nick Taylor
#5. If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.
Cyril Connolly
#6. Coleridge, who when at Christ's Hospital was ambitious to be a shoemaker's apprentice, was right when he declared that shoemakers had given to the world a larger number of eminent men than any other handicraft.
George Smith
#7. You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.
David B. Haight
#8. All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI
#9. Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
Saki
#10. It is not given to each of us
To be desired.
Mina Loy
#11. The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances.
Fons Trompenaars
#12. No one ought to expect to see much good resulting from his labors in word, and doctrine, if he is not much given to prayer and meditation.
George Muller
#13. All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else.
Melissa De La Cruz
#14. Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
Ben Jonson
#15. Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.
Richard Grasso
#16. Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
Rebecca West
#18. To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.
Jules Verne
#19. Babies being "given" to women as gifts makes the women sound powerless.
Caitlin Moran
#20. LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.
Marcus Garvey
#21. Within a few months, more than 40,000 pieces of mail totaling over $600,000 were given to the Tippit family. The largest single donation came from Abraham Zapruder, who contributed the initial payment of $25,000 he received from Life magazine for his home movie of the assassination.
Dale K. Myers
#22. Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#23. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
Grace Hartigan
#24. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Terri Blackstock
#25. The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
Elton Trueblood
#27. I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I just write down information given to me from the muse and how that works for songwriters. Record the muse and the muse delivers.
Creed Bratton
#28. Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.
Louise Hay
#29. Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.
Dorothy Dunnett
#30. In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
Philip Yancey
#31. I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.
Erich Fromm
#32. GAL3.22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Anonymous
#33. We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#34. Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
Garth Brooks
#35. I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people that have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law. I think that's the right course.
Mitt Romney
#36. The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#37. Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.
Martin Luther
#38. 1 JOHN 3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Anonymous
#39. When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.
Andre Brink
#40. If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost ... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts ... for they have already been given to another.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#41. Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Leigh Hunt
#42. It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."
Phillips Brooks
#43. As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.
Ronald Reagan
#44. But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duties a father has is that of teaching his son to drink.
Douglas Wilson
#45. It takes all sorts to make a world," some are soldiers from the cradle, some merchants, some orators; nothing but a love of books was the gift given to me by the fairies.
Andrew Lang
#46. The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character and love. The children of God are to manifest His glory. In their own life and character they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.
Ellen G. White
#47. Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.
Sidney Greenberg
#48. Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally given to the term, but to specify thereby all the actions that emanate from active goodness.
Germaine De Stael
#49. In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
Walter Savage Landor
#50. Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
James Wolk
#51. God has chosen to make the heavens his jurisdiction while at the same time he himself makes it very clear that the earth has been given to man as man's sphere of influence.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. [W]hat with the hours dedicated to the law and those given to dining out or entertaining friends at home, with an occasional evening at the Opera or the play, the life he was living had still seemed a fairly real and inevitable sort of business.
But Newport represented the escape from duty ...
Edith Wharton
#53. Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.
David O. McKay
#54. I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.
John Mayer
#55. Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.
Saint John Chrysostom
#56. Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson
#57. Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.
Palmiro Togliatti
#58. We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
John Wycliffe
#59. The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#60. In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.
Mary Doria Russell
#61. After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.
Brandon Bays
#62. Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
Amy Winehouse
#64. The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount ... If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
Harry Truman
#65. We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
Ambrose
#66. With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.
Neil L. Andersen
#67. To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.
Rand Paul
#68. I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#69. Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person.
Danny Brown
#70. What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.
Carl Jung
#71. No. There is no getting away from the word nigger, not now, not in the world we've been given to live in, you and me. Country
Stephen King
#72. If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.
Robin Gibb
#73. I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.
Carine Roitfeld
#74. Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian's ease of manner and flow of ideas,
Henry James
#75. Do you know what love is? It is the most beautiful, comprehensive, divine, pranic energy given to you by God, which you should have experienced. But what did you do? You turned it into mucous and saliva and you call it kisses and hugs and sex.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#76. I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.
Stuart Appleby
#77. do what we will, it's only making use o' the sperrit and the powers that ha' been given to us. And
George Eliot
#78. My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.
Diana Quick
#79. Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#80. Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you.
Michael Beckwith
#81. It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
Simone De Beauvoir
#82. Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.
Rajneesh
#83. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
Samuel Johnson
#84. They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
#85. The main "food" God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.
Billy Graham
#89. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
Matthew Kelly
#90. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges
Jan Karon
#91. You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.
Leighton Meester
#92. Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
Nicholson Baker
#93. Sow into the gift and talent God has given to you to rip an harvest
Sunday Adelaja
#94. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.'
Jan Karon
#95. I need to learn to keep a quiet heart. To trust that if God has allowed an interruption in my day, it serves a purpose. To believe that the time to finish what work I thought needed to be done will be given. To accept that He is diverting me from my 'plan A' to His greater plan.
Karen Ehman
#96. No, my dear, how should I be sad? I, who have been rich and happy, have become even richer and happier now. My son has been given to me.
Hermann Hesse
#97. Bossy means "given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive." ... Could it be that girls are called bossy when they're ... well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?
Matt Walsh
#98. No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Spencer W. Kimball
#99. I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.
Seann William Scott
#100. We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.
Lauren Child
