Us From Quotes

#1. Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#3. Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

#4. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

#5. Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Jeff Goodell

#6. Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

Frans De Waal

#7. God can never be outdone in generousity and compassion but that should not stop us from trying.

Lucas Michael

#8. We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Jerrold Nadler

#9. No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.

{Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.}

David Hilbert

#10. God protects us from Satan even at times when we are not aware of His protection. But how can we develop Jesus-like discernment? By Spirit-aided digestion of the solid food of God's wisdom.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#11. The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

Warren Farrell

#12. It seems to me the fence separating us from who we are and who we can be is not a straight line, not erect, but something wavering and distant, a reflection of who we are and what we fear.

Chloe Thurlow

#13. Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Each of us had all the troubles we could carry. They rained down on us from the sky, and we raced around in a frenzy to pick them up and stuff them in our pockets. Why we did that stumps me, even now. Maybe we thought they were something else.

Haruki Murakami

#15. What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

Chris Hardwick

#16. Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.

L.M. Browning

#17. Thinking prevents us from touching life deeply. I think, therefore I am really not there.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#18. Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.

Peace Pilgrim

#19. The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

Timothy Keller

#20. Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Isaac Asimov

#21. The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

Marshall McLuhan

#22. Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many people. The only tragedy is when fear, cultural barriers, ridiculous misunderstandings, or arbitrary numbers prevent us from experiencing the joy we could have.

Nadia Scrieva

#23. We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

Brian Tracy

#24. And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#25. It is a sign of the frailty of contemporary Christianity, rather than its strength, that we often do not begin to question until the megaphone of suffering has awakened us from our sleep.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Everything needed for success has been placed into us from the beginning

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

Elie Wiesel

#28. In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

Philip Yancey

#29. Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.

Watchman Nee

#30. Americans mythologized competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines.

Peter Thiel

#31. Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Mason Cooley

#32. But the Holy Spirit is a force of consciousness within us that "delivers us from Hell," or fear, whenever we consciously ask Him to, working with us on the Causal level, transforming our thoughts from fear to love.

Marianne Williamson

#33. Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

Steven Pressfield

#34. Clearly God does not shield us from circumstances where we are vulnerable to sin.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#35. Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#36. We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

George Wald

#37. Now, I don't think President Obama and Vice President Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Our economy is so much stronger than when they took office.

Hillary Clinton

#38. Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.

David Walker

#39. We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Coretta Scott King

#40. Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

Graham Greene

#41. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Virginia Woolf

#42. Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot

#43. Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.

Ramani Durvasula

#44. Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Alveda King

#45. We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more

Greg Egan

#46. Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

George McGovern

#47. The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

Henry George

#48. Everyday we see your heart and character, inspiring all of us to give more of ourselves.'You are the leader to take us from where we are to where we need to be.

Beyonce Knowles

#49. And what ails you that you fight not in the way of God, and for the weak and oppressed - men, women, and children - who cry out, Our Lord! Bring us forth from this town whose people are oppressors, and appoint for us from Thee a protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#50. We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.

Dallin H. Oaks

#51. True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Swami Paramananda

#52. It's not physical weight which stops us from moving forward in life. It's the mental baggage we carry all day long which sabotages our success and happiness.

Maddy Malhotra

#53. In order to be wise, we cannot expect yesterday's wise decision to relieve us from the necessity and responsibility to make wise decisions today.

Marshall Lenne

#54. Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#55. There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#56. Nicholas says that magic isn't inherently good or bad, it's what people do with it that makes it that way. It took me a long time to understand that. Once I did, I realized it isn't magic that separates us from them, or you from me. It's misunderstanding.

Virginia Boecker

#57. You won't be liberated from deformation by new information. God doesn't deliver us from the deformative habit-forming power of tactile rival liturgies by merely giving us a book. Instead,

James K.A. Smith

#58. Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#59. Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Gerard De Nerval

#60. even though there is nothing wrong with "good," that "good" can, and often does, prevent us from achieving more of our potential. Good will keep us satisfied with the current situation, and because of this satisfaction we may be unable and unwilling to try to achieve something better.

EZ-READER

#61. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

Mal Peet

#62. We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

A. E. Hotchner

#63. It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi

Michel De Montaigne

#64. Satan's primary goal is to prevent us from having an intimate
relationship with the Lord. He

Charles F. Stanley

#65. There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it.

Paulo Coelho

#66. Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

Laura Harvey

#67. What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real - and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.

Patrick Harpur

#68. How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?"
"The Creator didn't make love conditional," Jona said. "Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.

Peter V. Brett

#69. One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

Leonard Ravenhill

#70. Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

David Hare

#71. The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Grover Cleveland

#72. Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

Dan Savage

#73. We may forget our dead, but dead will never forget us. They call upon us from the border of unknown, reminding us of our solemn duties in fulfilling their hopes

Pierre Van Paassen

#74. He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. Colossians 1:13

Beth Moore

#75. Sometimes The World Doesn't Need Another Hero. Instead, Sometimes The World Needs A Powerful Nocturnal Creature To Save Us From Total Eternal Destruction.

Chris Mentillo

#76. Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Richard Paul Evans

#77. At the end of the day, love is not perfect. It doesn't protect us or save us from the darkness surrounding our lives. Instead, it is the light that shines through to help us. Without it, we would be consumed by the darkness.

K.A. Robinson

#78. Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn't going to stop us from being together.

Erica Sehyun Song

#79. At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Steve Wozniak

#80. Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

Melody Beattie

#81. Ghosts are waiting in the shadows of the room, patient dull shimmers. The others can see them, too, I know it. We're all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#82. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

#83. I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

James E. Faust

#84. Satan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ.

Lysa TerKeurst

#85. Catholics are pretty good at keeping Jesus nailed to that cross, rather than focusing more on that happy bit where he rose from the dead and freed us from sin and evil.

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

#86. Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#87. We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.

Marianne Williamson

#88. But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

Joy Williams

#89. However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.

Alfie Kohn

#90. Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.

Frederick Lenz

#91. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

#92. Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

Steve Arterburn

#93. What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

Colson Whitehead

#94. Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

#95. God intends to free us from more than our idolatry; He intends to free us from ourselves. He even wants to liberate us from our need to find a silver lining in suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

#96. Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

Marie Ponsot

#97. When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity.

Reona Peterson Joly

#98. I suddenly see us from above. I do that all the time now. I think it's because I'm losing my humanity and it's my way of marking my descent into hell.

Karen Marie Moning

#99. That's where God watches us from: from a distance.

Chris Crutcher

#100. Sometimes the things we dream about are merely the heart's way of protecting us from what we really want, and what we're really afraid to lose.

S.L. Naeole