Knees Quotes - Page 18

• Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?

  B. B. Warfield

  Book, Giving, Over You

  B. B. Warfield (2018). “The Religious Life of Theological Students”, p.4, CrossReach Publications via PublishDrive

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• Into each of our lives come golden moments of adversity. This painful friend breaks our hearts, drops us to our knees, and makes us realize we are nothing without our Lord and Savior. This friend makes us plead all the night long for reassurance and into the next day and sometimes for weeks and months. But, ultimately, just as surely as the day follows the night, as we remain true and faithful, this strange friend, adversity, leads us straight into the outstretched arms of the Savior.

  Glenn L. Pace

  Heart, Adversity, Night

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• There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life.

  Wright Morris

  Doors, Buckets, Floating

  Wright Morris, James Alinder (1982). “Photographs & words”, Friends of Photography Bookstore

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• I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

  Jay Kay

  Littles, Stage, Bits

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

  David Leavitt

  Passion, Writing, Tired

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• I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.

  Grace Slick

  Feet, Long, Ankles

  "'The Bus May Be Different but It's the Same Trip': Psychedelia: Singer Grace Slick comments on her life and a new, three-CD box from RCA Records, 'Jefferson Airplane Loves You'". Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 1, 1993.

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• Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Fall, Idols, People

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• I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

  George Whitefield

  Bible, Christian, Book

  George Whitefield (2000). “George Whitefields's Journals”, p.27, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

  Children, Sleep, Long

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• Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

  Sarah Kay

  Life, War, Winning

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• Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.

  Larry Christenson

  Children, Parent, Lord

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• The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

  Enver Hoxha

  Thinking, Honor, Mind

  Enver Hoxha (1974). “On Further Revolutionizing Our Party and the Life of Our Country as a Whole: Speeches 1967-1968”

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• Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

  Eric Clapton

  Song, Time, Down Time

  Song: Tears in Heaven, Album: Unplugged, 1992

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• Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Home, Animal

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• It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

  Tim Henman

  Tennis, Bees, Disappointing

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• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Memories, Spring

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Globalization, Corporate

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• At the finish of the effect look at the audience: if they have gone white in the face, froth at the mouth with excitement,shake at the knees or get down on the floor and salaam you-it is quite a fair trick.

  Tony Corinda

  White, Magic, Looks

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• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

  Mike Rowe

  Rivers, San Francisco, Guy

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• The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Rivers, Appreciate, Water

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• Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love...!!!

  Lucinda Franks

  Dream, Baby, Stars

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• He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Mud, Abundance

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

  Jenny Eclair

  Mother, Dad, Hair

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Tongue, Bows

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  Jim Elliot

  Son, Men, Thinking

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