Weightiest Quotes

#1. The loudest of doomsayers, so often, carry the weightiest of sin.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

J.I. Packer

#3. Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

Peter Heather

#4. The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

Saint John Chrysostom

#5. Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Gore Vidal

#7. The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

Samuel Rutherford

#8. Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#9. During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Honore De Balzac

#10. In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

Edmund White

#11. Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

Ken Livingstone

#12. Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

Benjamin Whichcote

#13. It had a fellar call Five Past Twelve. A test look at him and say, 'Boy, you black like midnight.' Then the test take a second look and say, 'No, you more like Five Past Twelve.

Samuel Selvon

#14. You never can give without receiving it.

Debasish Mridha

#15. It is very easy to create fear but very difficult to instill confidence.

Balan Gothandaraman