quotes about trusting god

He who kneels before God can stand before anyone. ~Author Unknown



My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart



If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968



You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. ~Dan Birdwell



I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock



You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. ~Arnold Palmer



Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill



The shadows: some hide, others reveal. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill



Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ~Albert Camus



If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. ~Oliver Herford



The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling. ~Author Unknown



Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~Lord Byron



The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. ~Anna Quindlen



Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? ~Socrates



When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro



Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. ~C.S.Lewis



The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. ~John Milton