Gates Quotes - Page 39

• Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Kings, Block, Book

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• Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Punishment, Joy, Endless

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.411, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.

  Mark Batterson

  Jesus, Light, And Love

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• A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Blood, Suffering

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 49 - The American Language by HL Mencken (1919)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2017.

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• If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those who receive Him. Bid the gates be lifted up (cf. Ps. 24:7, 10), or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion. Answer to those who are in doubt because He bears up with Him His body and the tokens of His Passion, which He had not when He came down, and who therefore inquire, 'Who is this King of Glory?' that it is the Lord strong and mighty, as in all things that He has done from time to time and does, so now in His battle and triumph for the sake of Mankind.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Strong, Kings

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• May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kings, Children

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our sake, how will He save, glorify and raise us up if we neither choose humility, nor show love to our fellows, nor gain our souls by enduring temptation (cf. Lk. 21:19), nor follow the saving Guide through the 'strait gate' and along the 'narrow way' leading to eternal life (Mt. 7:14)? To this end we were called, says Peter, the chief Apostle, ' Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps' (I Pet. 2:21).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Humility, Cfs

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• The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Lying, Son

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.536, Discovery House

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• Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart.

  Julie Andrews

  Heart, Magic Kingdom, Land

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• The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?

  Martin Sheen

  Fighting, Men, Heaven

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• The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.

  Charles Stanley

  Wise, Way, Boundaries

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• But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Radiance, Given

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

  Natasha Lyonne

  School, Acting

  "Natasha Lyonne’s Resident 'Evil'". Interview with Michelle Orange, www.ifc.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Deeds, Way, Exit

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• A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

  Tom Brokaw

  Morning, Luck, Bigs

  "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Soft pity enters an iron gate.

  William Shakespeare

  Iron, Pity

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.140

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• The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bob, Defense, Campaigns

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• Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heaven, Tickets, Agnostic

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• Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Art, Children

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• Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.

  Kathy Troccoli

  God, Believe, Eye

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• In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Husband, Night, Islands

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Mimic Men”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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• But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Nerves, Mouths, Outlets

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Broken Kingdoms”, p.16, Hachette UK

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