Hands Quotes - Page 7

• As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

  Josh Billings

  Winning, Games, Play

  "Josh Billings' Wit and Humor".

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• The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ "in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery . . . and land their souls . . . at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers" (Helaman 3:30) "who have been ever since the world began . . . to go no more out."

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Father, Men, Land

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• A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Real, Soul, Looks

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• Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ? to hear the divine word; after that, one should be content with anything that comes to hand.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Remember, Lord

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• Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Gratitude, Lord

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Knowing, Way, Helpful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.50, Modern Library

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• God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Moving, Night

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• On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Path Of Love, Masters

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• Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Years, Two

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• I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

  John Green

  Hipster, Shy, Type

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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• My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Death, Light

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Queens, Cheer

  Robert E. Howard (2008). “The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard”, p.158, Del Rey

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• If people like you, they'll give you a hand. But if they trust you, they'll give you their heart. And heart to heart, we can face anything together.

  Steve Goodier

  Heart, People, Giving

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• Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Moving On, Heart

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• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  Victor Hugo

  Work, Eye, Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Writing, Miracle

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• For in that universal call,
  Few bankers will to heaven be mounters;
  They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall!
  Conceal and cover us, ye counters!
  When other hands the scales shall hold,
  And they, in men's and angels' sight
  Produced with all their bills and gold,
  'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Angel, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1883). “Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics”

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• Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

  Roy Lessin

  God, Religious, Thinking

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Vices, Virtue, Entertaining

  "The Moral Force of Women". D. Todd Christofferson's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2013.

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• Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Brain, Fiction, Quiet

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping.

  Noah

  Notebook, Thinking, Slipping

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• Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Religious, Giving, Religion

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• Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Mean, Slave, Venus In Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.60, Cosimo Classics

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