Quotes About Bowing Down

#1. Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.

Beth Moore

#2. Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

#3. Blessing is defined by neither ease nor worldly possessions nor pain-free existence nor stock-market successes. Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart make life worth the bother.

Beth Moore

#4. Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

Elizabeth George

#5. Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King ... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

G. Campbell Morgan

#8. She would have said that love was hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant postration

Alice Munro

#9. Kissing her once more, I tell her without hesitation, "if you promise to never leave me, I will love you. And be good to you. I'll treat you like a queen." My queen. I heard somewhere that a king only bows down to his queen. And I'm bowing down to Lexi.

Belle Aurora

#10. Freedom is found in submitting to convictions, not bowing down to our fears!
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Evinda Lepins

#11. I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

#12. I once heard a Chicago-area pastor put it this way: we don't need more Americans bowing down to the Democrat donkey or the Republican elephant. We need more Americans bowing down to the Lion of Judah.

Todd Starnes

#13. And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.

Henry Abbey

#14. Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#15. The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense
all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.

Fred Bahnson

#16. Pan life for gold and you will find it daily.

Rosamund Lupton

#17. Why would you do that?" I asked as he gasped. "Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?" I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.

Mark Lawrence

#18. Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

Laozi

#19. You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.

Charles Schwab

#20. I find myself lacing my fingers together and bowing my head. Sometimes my father did this in the morning before sitting down at the breakfast table, but I never asked him what he was doing. Still, I would like to feel like I belong to my father again before I . . . well, before it's over.

Veronica Roth

#21. I don't have a direct line to hell to see if it's frozen over so I'm looking for flying pigs.

Eve Langlais

#22. There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

Nancy Kassebaum

#23. Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

David Souter

#24. Money has never been my primary goal.

Bryan Cranston

#25. And then Micah Bayar swept back his cloak and dropped to his knees, bowing his head, his amulet swinging forward. Fiona glared down at him like she wanted to stomp on him.
Ho, Han thought. Micah breaks with his family? That's interesting.

Cinda Williams Chima

#26. I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton)

Ronald Reagan

#27. If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

Rachel Johnson

#28. My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

J.K. Rowling

#29. Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

Rumi

#30. We work with nutrition and exercise to increase our energy, but we ignore the richest source of energy we possess - our emotions.

Karla McLaren

#31. Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

William Laud

#32. He cried like a man,not like a boy.Not like he was frustrated or hadn't gotten his way,but like life was bitter.Like his wounds couldn't be healed.

E. Lockhart

#33. It was a perfect title, in that it crystallized the article's niggling mindlessness, its funeral parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems.

Kingsley Amis

#34. Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Erica Jong