Kneel Before Me Quotes

#1. Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.

Jack Vance

#2. A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

Etty Hillesum

#3. O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me! ... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

Alphonsus Liguori

#4. Before you sit down to listen to the news at seven, kneel down to ask God for the dew of Heaven

Julius Owusu

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

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#6. Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

Renee Ahdieh

#7. You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Tom Hiddleston

#8. How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel before mirrors.

Anthony Esolen

#9. Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

#10. Wren laughs when I kneel on the floor and try to do a breakdance head-spin. I end up taking down two people before Kayla kicks me in a friendly manner to get me to stop.

Sara Wolf

#11. It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

Jaron Lanier

#12. Well, one day all the world's wizards and witches will kneel before Jesus and call Him 'Lord.

Jim Yackel

#13. Now you kneel before us. You bare your throats. You spread your legs. You work, you serve, you fuck, and you submit. You obey, or you die.

R. Phoenix

#14. If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

Leonard Ravenhill

#15. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!

Ayn Rand

#16. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.

Charles Bukowski

#17. Arin imagined how, if he could, he would kneel before the boy he had been. He'd cradle himself to his chest, let the child bury his wet face against his shoulder. Shh, Arin would tell him. You will be lonely, but you' ll become strong. One day, you will have your revenge.

Marie Rutkoski

#18. You grow bored of these shrines, and you abandon them
because you know for a fact that you will worship
anything you kneel before.
Like God.
Like cock.
Like porcelain.

Kris Kidd

#19. He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died.

James Joyce

#20. I panted like a whore in church. The Church of Simon ... where I was dying to kneel before him.

Alice Clayton

#21. As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

#22. 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us l kneel before the LORD, our m Maker! 7. For he is our n God, and we are the people of his o pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Anonymous

#23. All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest, in some way find that the ugliness of their sin is taken away and the beauty of their sorrow is revealed to them.

Oscar Wilde

#24. Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

Joe Lieberman

#26. The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Chinua Achebe

#27. When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Olympia Dukakis

#28. The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.

Dan Brown

#29. Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the strength they do not possess

Manly P. Hall

#30. Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

Maximilian Kolbe

#31. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.

Mike Yankoski