Top 100 Verily Quotes
#1. If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Sri Aurobindo
#2. Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of Allah.
Ibn Saud
#3. I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.
Richard Salter Storrs
#4. For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.
Gilbert Tennent
#5. Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.
Anonymous
#6. Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance.
Aleister Crowley
#7. Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
Kahlil Gibran
#8. McSorely's Tea verily the finest tea in the world" -Mister Snickering.
Helen Ryan
#9. Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
Dorothy Dunnett
#10. All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.
Robert Anton Wilson
#11. And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.
Baha'u'llah
#13. For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#14. And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth.
Kahlil Gibran
#15. Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#16. His wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on
Charlotte Bronte
#17. And verily the Hereafter will be better for thee than the present." (93:4)
Qur'an
#18. Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
Khalil Gibran
#19. Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.
Sathya Sai Baba
#20. Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living, - then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.
Johannes Kepler
#22. What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright;
Thomas A Kempis
#23. Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. Look at his toes. He, let's be frank, has two left feet.' 'Verily,' Chamberlain Le Goff confirmed without a trace of amazement. 'There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#25. Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
Zhuangzi
#26. By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.
Thomas Traherne
#27. Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.
Samuel Rutherford
#29. Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men's opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to the event; and only recognise foresight where Fortune has crowned the issue with her approval.
Boethius
#30. Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran
#31. Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy word. I beseech you, remember (it is an article of your church covenant) that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the word of God.
John Robinson
#33. Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.
Chanakya
#34. Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:22, 23,
Andrew Wommack
#35. Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
Cornelia Parker
#36. Twas the wind which made Darius's eyes water. Verily, 'twas but the wind. As
J.R. Ward
#37. Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.
Helen Rowland
#38. Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
Kabir
#39. Indeed, it may most verily be said
That only death and taxes certain are.
Ian Doescher
#40. Verily, Allah lets [a person] enjoy a blessing for as long as He wills. But when He is no longer thanked for it, He turns it into a punishment.
Al-Hasan Al-Basri
#42. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief;
Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.
Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,
And to thy Lord turn [all] thy attention.
Anonymous
#44. Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis, 9:6 Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota of Corvo CHAPTER FIVE 'What seeks the Witcher on my territory?
Andrzej Sapkowski
#45. Naked have I seen both of
them, the greatest man and the smallest man. All too similar are they still to each other. Verily, even the
greatest found I all too human.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.
John Of Salisbury
#48. Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
Khalil Gibran
#49. The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
R. Scott Bakker
#51. Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
#52. It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He
H.P. Lovecraft
#53. And what ye have called the world shall but be created by you: your reason, your likeness, your will, you love, shall it itself become! and verily, for your bliss ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant
Sayyid Qutb
#55. Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.
Charles Dickens
#57. Verily I say unto you," Stuart said, looking Cyril straight in the eye and folding his arms, "that if you do not mind your sister Millie, you will be smitten both hip and thigh
Martha Finley
#58. Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#59. As for those who seek the transcendental Reality, without name, without form, contemplating the Unmanifested, beyond the reach of thought and of feeling, 4 with their senses subdued and mind serene and striving for the good of all beings, they too will verily come unto me.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#60. I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#61. We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
Gautama Buddha
#62. Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don't believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!
Barry Webster
#63. When Allah created his creatures He wrote above His throne: 'Verily, my Compassion overcomes my wrath.
Anonymous
#64. Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
Jorge Luis Borges
#65. Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
Abu Bakr
#66. It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.
Anandamayi Ma
#67. A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
R. Scott Bakker
#69. If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Even so did the Lord Jesus love His family while on earth.
Watchman Nee
#70. Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh.
Muhammad
#71. It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#72. Verily,' said Gandalf, now in a loud voice, keen and clear, 'that way lies our hope, where sits our greatest fear. Doom hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can but stand unconquered for a little while.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#73. From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
Dada Vaswani
#74. The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting ... It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
Richard Steele
#75. LUK23.42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. LUK23.43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Anonymous
#76. Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah
#77. There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth ... no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God
Joseph Fielding Smith
#78. In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.
Gautama Buddha
#79. Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
Saadi
#80. Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me. - Walt Longmire
Craig Johnson
#81. The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know; that verily has made us cry (suffer) in this world. This indeed increases our burden.
Dada Bhagwan
#83. Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!- gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glints any more!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
Helen Rowland
#85. I shall think myself blessed only when I see Him in every one of my daily acts; Verily He is the thread which supports Muktanand's life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing Ican do about it.
Mike Gayle
#87. I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#88. Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!
Baha'u'llah
#89. Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#90. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Only when you're empty you're at standstill and balance.
Kahlil Gibran
#91. Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
Laozi
#93. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Anonymous
#94. Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
Bayard Taylor
#95. Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
#96. Verily the God that knows how not to reveal himself, must also know how best to reveal himself! If there be a calling child, there must be an answering Father!
George MacDonald
#97. Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time.
Dwight L. Moody
#98. It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#99. Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
Gelett Burgess
#100. Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; 28. For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.
Joseph Smith Jr.
