Godward Quotes

#1. O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#2. Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey

#3. There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. I believe that we are ultimately directed Godward but that this journey is often impeded by emotion

Flannery O'Connor

#4. Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

Hugh Black

#5. The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

Lilias Trotter

#6. Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.

F.B. Meyer

#7. The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

G. Campbell Morgan

#8. The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

Dillon Burroughs

#9. He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ
a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.

Charles Brent

#11. A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

#12. The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Arthur Middleton

#13. Avoidance doesn't solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

Tony Dungy

#14. As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

Junior Seau

#15. It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Jonathan Swift

#16. Please, tell me the truth.
The truth, who knows the truth?
You've heart knows the truth.

Oscar Wilde

#17. The point, dear Davis, is that sometimes what you want is nothing more than to put your name beside someone else's, someone whom you love. Stretch your name out alongside theirs as though it was you, lying next to them.

Helen Humphreys

#18. We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#19. Can I kiss you now?" he asked.
"I think you'd better, tiger," I replied.

Colleen Houck

#20. My advice," I say, "don't seek love from other people. Just love who you are enough that it won't matter whether or not you find your Rochester.

Krista Ritchie

#21. Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

Pierre Loti

#22. Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

Arne Jacobsen

#23. Never lose Faith. Always have hope. Love for always.

J.B. McGee

#24. Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Bob Goff

#26. A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

Roxrite

#27. I'm less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let's-Save-Erdas.

Maggie Stiefvater