Quotes About Kneeling

#1. Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

D.L. Moody

#2. And what would you have me say? (Lorelei)
That you love me, too, would be nice. Especially given the fact that I look like a complete ass kneeling here in front of you while two hundred men watch. (Jack)

Kinley MacGregor

#3. Did he think I was kneeling out of some sort of weird worship ritual because he'd managed to shoot me?

Donna Augustine

#4. He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Herman Melville

#5. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?

Sarah J. Maas

#7. The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

Michael Simkins

#8. Of course it's a trap
With her, it always is one
Trappy McTrapface

Britomartis jumped from the ledge and landed in a kneeling position, her skirts spread around her in a pool of netting.
(She loves those dramatic entrances. She is such an anime-character wannabe.)

Rick Riordan

#9. John's heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God's minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father.

James Baldwin

#10. A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.

Barbara Johnson

#11. He was gorgeous yesterday, kneeling and burnished and kind of a fantasy. And he's still gorgeous this morning, rumpled and tired and real.

Alexis Hall

#12. The reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

Marcel Proust

#13. kneeling down in front of

R.J. Palacio

#14. What I like best about this is not seeing you naked, love," Marcus said. He began to massage the bar of soap in the washcloth, creating a rich lather. "Though you are quite beautiful. What I like is knowing Josh is kneeling here beside you and cannot see you.

Joey W. Hill

#15. Think I even noticed that I had a forehead full of sofa? Hell no, I had a Wallbanger kneeling between my legs.

Alice Clayton

#16. And it's when I'm standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#17. Dumping the tent onto the ground, I studied it fiercely.
All right, I can do this. How hard can it be, really?
Kneeling, I picked up a long metal spike, frowning.
What in the world? Are you supposed to stab someone with these? Do tents come with vampire-slaying kits?

Julie Kagawa

#18. Into the counter behind her; her stick-thin arms fly into the air. I whip to my right, toward Razor, in time to see his chest blown apart by the kneeling recruit's round.

Rick Yancey

#19. My knee struck a tree root as my vision went black. Suddenly, I was in a building at Haven Crest, kneeling on the floor. Blood, thick and clotted like canned cherries, crept down the walls. The lights above my head flickered off then on with a menacing hum.

Kady Cross

#20. If you think you can stand to know what you're made of, try kneeling before God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Valuing creeds, confessions, and catechism is kneeling down in humility to the wisdom of the past and confessing our connectedness to the communion of saints before us and to the Head of the body.

Mathew B. Sims

#22. And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

J.K. Rowling

#23. The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.

John Bunyan

#24. In vain we search the heavens high above, The God of love is kneeling at our feet. Though we betray him, though it is the night, He meets us here and loves us into light.

Malcolm Guite

#25. Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.

Herman Melville

#26. COLE HELD KYLE AS gently as he could manage. He wanted to pull her inside of him. Kneeling with her in the church had saved him. He realized now that she was his angel. There would be no denying her again.

Debra Anastasia

#27. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.

V. Raymond Edman

#28. What kind of life a dog ... acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

E. V. Lucas

#29. Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

Ma Jun

#30. Get thee behind me, tragedy. Kneeling over her, he lifted her and impaled her gently on his sex.

Anne Rice

#31. Emma looked across the room and met Clary's green gaze with her own. She thought of Clary kneeling in front of her in Idris, holding her hands, complimenting Cortana. She thought of how the kindnesses that were shown to children were things they never forgot.

Cassandra Clare

#32. He started toward the entrance. Seriously, how could he not? He stopped when he noticed the girl. She was kneeling in her vegetable garden, her back to Leo. She muttered to herself as she dug furiously with a trowel.

Rick Riordan

#33. Or maybe his reclusiveness was a decisive marketing strategy-if you disappear, people are more interested in your work. You become a legend while you're still alive. Crouching behind a stonewall, or the post under a house ... people are kneeling down to find you.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#34. It isn't about kneeling in strange places at strange times; it's about the willingness to obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. It's about a willingness to kneel anyplace, anytime.

Mark Batterson

#35. Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.

Luigi Orione

#36. Still kneeling, he grasps my foot and undoes my Converse, pulling off my shoe and sock.

E.L. James

#37. When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

Adam Ant

#38. - the rusalka was kneeling beside Plain Kate on the deck. She was made of fog and shadow until Kate caught her eye, and then, all at once, she became human. She was young, mischievously sad, a fox in a story. Kate fell in love with her. And then she was gone.

Erin Bow

#39. That's how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

Anthony Doerr

#40. for it is a universal rule that however bashful or angry a woman may be she never disregards a man's kneeling at her feet.

Mallanaga Vatsyayana

#41. Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Ambrose Bierce

#42. The man, still kneeling, must have understood the cause of my tears, for he said, 'It is true, Christine! ... I am not an Angel, nor a genius, nor a ghost ... I am Erik!

Gaston Leroux

#43. For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#44. I saw- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together ... Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Mary Shelley

#45. Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

Brian Skerry

#46. My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

Segolene Royal

#47. Clearly, I see it.
I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there.
A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

Markus Zusak

#48. Up! you bag of bones!"
"Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream ...
You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!!
"She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. "Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??

Alexandra Bracken

#49. I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Billy Wilder

#50. Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.

F.B. Meyer

#51. 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

#52. There will be no kneeling in front of me tonight, Mistress Isabel. You told me you wanted control, so tonight I'll give you control. Complete control.

Ella Dominguez

#53. I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.

Katy Perry

#54. you went to the fridge for your favourite bar of chocolate and found out someone had already eaten it. Kneeling

Lindsey Kelk

#55. Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oscar Wilde

#56. Any of the kneeling girls who fell over was taken away to be gassed,

Clive James

#57. You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

Andrea Gibson

#58. [Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor.
[Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.

Melissa Marr

#59. unrequited love is like
kneeling on uncooked rice
and waiting for
the boiling water
of his kisses
to soften the pain
but he never comes.

K.Y. Robinson

#60. That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

Henny Youngman

#61. Kneeling before him, Regin murmured, "Don't let that Fegley worm get to you." Still staring ahead, the kid slowed his banging. "There's a good ... male of indeterminate species.

Kresley Cole

#62. Anne was kneeling at the west gable window watching the sunset sky that was like a great flower with petals of crocus and a heart of fiery yellow.

L.M. Montgomery

#63. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. He hesitated, but then stepped beneath the tree and knelt, depositing me gently on the ground between two giant roots. And he stayed there, kneeling beside me, holding my hand in his. Something splashed the back of my hand, cold as spring water, crystalling to my skin. A faery's tears.

Julie Kagawa

#65. a White breathing fire on a group of Spoiled kneeling in obvious supplication. An egg bathed in fire and cracking open to reveal the screaming infant Black inside, the flames fading to reveal an old man in a robe staring down at the fledgling drake with the expression of a proud father.

Anthony Ryan

#66. And Oskar was kneeling at the left side-altar, trying to teach the boy Jesus how to drum, but the rascal wouldn't drum, offered no miracle. Oskar had sworn back then and swore again outside the locked church door: I'll teach him to drum yet. Sooner or later.

Gunter Grass

#67. He wasn't having me try on a glass slipper, but for some strange reason, I finally understood exactly why Cinderella ran off with the prince after having only known him for one night. Having a hot guy kneeling in front of you is sort of intoxicating.

Sariah Wilson

#68. Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Auberon Herbert

#69. A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.

Mhalyn Campos Anonuevo

#70. I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.

Roma Downey

#71. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it.

F.B. Meyer

#72. It was peace, deeper and broader than the starfields around him. It was belonging. It was freedom. Kneeling before the one who could only be the Ancient had not been the cost of freedom, but the means. For a long time he laughed and wept and laughed again, released.

Jonathan Renshaw

#73. I'll have peace on those terms," Lord Karstark said. "They can keep their red castle and their iron chair as well." He eased his longsword from its scabbard. "The King in the North!" he said, kneeling beside the Greatjon.

George R R Martin

#74. I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

P. J. O'Rourke

#75. I would rather die standing than live kneeling

Charb

#76. The heart is a vessel not large enough to sustain love. Kneeling is the proper position for discovering love again.

Karen Burton Mains

#77. Good-by,'! he said to all those who were kneeling. 'Don't be said. To die is nothing. The only bad thing is to die at the hands of this canalla.

Ernest Hemingway,

#78. To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

James Stephens

#79. No. Not you. But if you're bothered, remind me when I get back - we can talk about your initiation. I like the idea of you kneeling at my feet.

Ellen Connor

#80. People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin
a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

Robert A. Heinlein

#81. A hairy beggar kneeling by a puddle of vomit turns out to be a dog.

David Mitchell

#82. The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

Douglas William Jerrold

#83. You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.

Madonna Ciccone

#84. Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

Michael Morpurgo

#85. Simon looked for his friend Jace, who was kneeling by himself in the overgrown grass and sharpening a short blade against a stone. Simon assumed Jace had his reasons for this; or possibly he just knew he looked cool doing it. Possibly he and Isabelle could do a joint photo shoot for Badass Monthly.

Cassandra Clare

#86. There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Frank Zappa

#87. Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.

David Foster Wallace

#88. Better die standing than live kneeling.

Pericles

#89. Though you wear your fingers to the bone with service, weep your eyes out with repentance, make your knees hard with kneeling, and dry your throat with shouting, if your heart does not beat with love, your religion falls to the ground like a withered leaf in autumn.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#90. I came because I wanted to be the one to break the news to you. No amount of prayers, confessions in a wooden booth, counting rosary beads, kneeling before a cross, or fasting will purify a soul. Once you've welcomed evil inside you, there is no turning back. Heaven will reject you.

Ashlan Thomas

#91. Now, Laurent was beside him. Aloof, untouchable Laurent was beside him, kneeling on the wet marble hundreds of miles from home, with nothing in his eyes but Damen.

C.S. Pacat

#92. I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

Amelia Earhart

#93. Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Hortense Calisher

#94. If you find yourself in an interrogation room, you will probably do better if you have not spent a bit of time kneeling on a blood-soaked carpet. And it would be especially good if you didn't have any of that blood smeared on your clothing and your hands. I'm just saying. A word to the wise.

Victoria Abbott

#95. XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud

Anne Carson

#96. A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

C.S. Lewis

#97. I see you kneeling in church - stained only by colored windows

John Geddes

#98. I don't know how to pray,
but I've seen them do it
on TV; kneeling by a bed
in nightgowns, hands woven
like secret friends.

Jessica Bell

#99. Without knowing what I'm doing, I'm on the floor in front of her chair, kneeling with my head in her lap, sobbing. She hugs me and strokes my head, and we both cry for a long time. (266)

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#100. When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Simon Newcomb