Top 16 Swaddling Clothes Quotes
#1. The Bible became a jewel in the hands of the Reformers not because it was a "handbook for happy living" or a "primer of metaphysics about God," but because in it the Christian possessed the "the swaddling clothes in which Christ lies."85
Matthew Barrett
#2. And she brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7
Anonymous
#3. Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
Anne Lamott
#4. I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.
Giovanna Cau
#5. I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.
Rod Stewart
#6. Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Victor Hugo
#7. To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Emily Post
#8. Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride ... We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.
John W. Weeks
#9. Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#10. If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus ... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.
Saint John Chrysostom
#11. My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish.
Karl Benz
#12. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
#13. Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'
Martin Luther
#14. As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
Jane Green
#15. There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.
Antony Starr
#16. Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,
constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.
The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our
institutions.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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