Things Of Quotes

#1. Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

T. B. Joshua

#2. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died.

R.J. Palacio

#3. Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

Teresa Of Avila

#4. Gregor was a real drinker..he didn't drink because he was sad..(or) cheerful. He drank because he was a thorough man, who like to get to the bottom of things, of bottles as well as everything else.

Gunter Grass

#5. While the others chatted over their parcels Jean wrote her letter, and Jean could write delightful letters. She had a decided talent in that respect, and her correspondents all declared her letters to be things of beauty and joy forever. She

L.M. Montgomery

#6. I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#7. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleonora Duse

#8. Why is it that the unwanted things come up of their own but the things of substance, of use, and of value need efforts to make them prosper?

Girdhar Joshi

#9. Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

#10. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.

Darlene Zschech

#11. (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen

Anonymous

#12. As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

Philip Zaleski

#13. As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Margaret Oliphant

#14. Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

Charles R. Swindoll

#15. God warns us to not get too attached to what's around us because it is temporary. We're told, "Those in frequent contact with the things of the world should make good use of them without becoming attached to them, for this world and all it contains will pass away."9

Rick Warren

#16. Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

Frederick William Robertson

#17. Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.

Marianne Williamson

#18. It's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#19. I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.

Bill Kreutzmann

#20. We were never meant to live life accumulating stuff. We were meant to live simply enjoying the experiences of life, the people of life, and the journey of life - not the things of life.

Joshua Becker

#21. A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone.

Max Ernst

#22. The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.

John Burroughs

#23. the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

John Bunyan

#24. Let the presence of God INVADE you today. It's all about Him ... don't get distracted by the stupid things of the enemy. Remember, God wins!

Kari Jobe

#25. I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

Richard K. Morgan

#26. Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Charles W. Chesnutt

#27. I want to observe the ordinary things of earth - the moon, the stars, the rainbows, even the yellow leaves of the old cherry trees - and receive their messages. To hear them say what every weary traveler, every earnest seeker, longs to hear. Welcome home.

Christie Purifoy

#28. All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Daniel Defoe

#29. We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

Pindar

#30. One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

Thomas Carlyle

#31. My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#32. Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#33. A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

David Whyte

#34. The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#35. I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.

Erich Maria Remarque

#36. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#37. Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know - mainly because I learned it from books - that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth

Karen Swallow Prior

#38. When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.

Joel T. McGrath

#39. But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.

Francine Rivers

#40. Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#41. I had done 'Die Hard' and it was somebody's franchise. I actually just got done with the 'Hawaii Five-O' pilot and I was developing some things of my own. So 'Total Recall' one of those projects that I read wanting more not to like it.

Len Wiseman

#42. Things that requires less effort to increase, are normally the less significant things of life

Sunday Adelaja

#43. A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.

Wendell Berry

#44. The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

Oscar Wilde

#45. I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don't torture you with their own weakness.

Anna Lee Waldo

#46. All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Edmund Waller

#47. Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

Annie Lennox

#48. If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.

John Woolman

#49. We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself. In

John Calvin

#50. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.

Francis Bacon

#51. A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

Beth Moore

#52. [T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing
such as making love.

G.K. Chesterton

#53. Things of the world are not in a 'seed' form; they are in a form of a 'fruit'. One has come with a ready farm; all he has to do is harvest the fruits now.

Dada Bhagwan

#54. We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

Jo Nesbo

#55. Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

Neal A. Maxwell

#56. Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed. The

Brandon Sanderson

#57. This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

Jerry Seinfeld

#58. Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#59. In front of us there is an immense garden of words and non-words, a serre, that is, a greenhouse in which are preserved by my care so many things of speech you have given me while leaving me free to cultivate them.

Helene Cixous

#60. The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

Anne Bosworth Greene

#61. The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

Emma Curtis Hopkins

#62. Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

Rod Stewart

#63. The youth of the Church are hungry for things of the Spirit; they are eager to learn the gospel, and they want it straight, undiluted" (The Charted Course of the Church in Education, rev. ed. [1994], 3).

J. Reuben Clark

#64. The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels.

Ann Goldstein

#65. We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves.

John Calvin

#66. I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

Ellen Hopkins

#67. Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

Corrie Ten Boom

#68. Keeping big secrets, particularly secrets about things of one's own doing, is a tough proposition for even very bright people.

Kurt Vonnegut

#69. The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.

Industrial Workers Of The World

#70. The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity

Sunday Adelaja

#71. There is no place for someone like him in the Society, I think, for someone who can create. He can do so many things of incomparable value, things no one else can do, and the Society doesn't care about that at all.

Ally Condie

#72. The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

Samuel Beckett

#73. What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Samuel Richardson

#74. I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

Kim Ki-duk

#75. It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

G.K. Chesterton

#76. You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

Pat Robertson

#77. God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness,

Francine Rivers

#78. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?

Helen Hollick

#79. As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

Stephen King

#80. There is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real.

Roger Zelazny

#81. Move on, don't let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on. - RVM.

R.v.m.

#82. The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Benjamin Franklin

#83. We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein ... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

Mike Stoller

#84. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#85. I see myself as a traditionalist ... I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.

Jakob Dylan

#86. I've had a couple of ghost experiences, but I'm not a big fan of the spiritual side of things, of the ghost type thing. I don't know why, maybe it freaks me out a bit, or I'm more into tangible, physical beings rather than things that can pass through walls.

Rhys Darby

#87. The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life.

Paulo Coelho

#88. The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#89. Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

Akshay Vasu

#90. I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.

Michael Faraday

#91. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Madeleine L'Engle

#92. Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#93. We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

Booker T. Washington

#94. Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Fulton J. Sheen

#95. That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result)

Charles Bukowski

#96. Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

Viktor E. Frankl

#97. Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

Peace Pilgrim

#98. But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

#99. Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

Li Bai

#100. Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire