Rod And Staff Quotes

#1. let us not abandon all hope before we have set our hands to the task. Let us not lay down our rod and staff if we do not have the desired success at once. What is impossible for men remains possible for God. Eventually God's hour must come, if only we wait for it.

Philip Jacob Spener

#2. You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'

Jay Leno

#3. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

Anonymous

#4. We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

Stephen Charnock

#5. Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

James Russell Lowell

#6. For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Thomas Tusser

#7. Still going with the phallic foci, eh? Staff and rod?"
"They make me feel all manly.

Jim Butcher