Knees Quotes - Page 21

• All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Christian, Perseverance, Religious

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

  Joseph Williams

  Passion, Heart, Mean

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• Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Religious, Jesus, Prayer

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• Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins
  Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Feelings, Trying

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• Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had,
  I pray so much about it, need some knee pads.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rap, Needs, Pads

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• One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.

  William Crawford Williamson

  Memories, Father, Science

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• When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Adversity

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• Lead me to the cross
  Where Your love poured out
  Bring me to my knees
  Lord I lay me down
  Rid me of myself
  I belong to You
  Lead me, lead me to the cross.

  Brooke Fraser

  Easter, Lord, Crosses

  Song: Lead Me to the Cross

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• Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Heart, Greatness, May

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• And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord. And when It is sacrificed on the altar by the priest or borne anywhere, let all the people on bended knees render praise, glory and honor to the True and Living Lord God.

  Francis of Assisi

  Blood, People, Honor

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• I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

  Bo Jackson

  Baseball, College, Men

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Criticism, Down And, Constant

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• Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out!

  Don Muraco

  Wrestling, Air, Feet

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• We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Veterans Day, Believe, Fighting

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• Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

  George W. Bush

  Godly, Blessing, Giving

  Address Welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House, delivered 16 April 2008, South Lawn

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• I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up.

  Larry Klayman

  Hands, President, Demand

  "Rallier tells Obama to 'put the Quran down'". Article by Ashley Killough, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 13, 2013.

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• People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

  Roger Ebert

  Years, Daddy, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!

  Dai Dower

  Boxing, Sides, Killing

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• I guess we're all one phone call from our knees

  Mat Kearney

  Phones, Phone Calls

  Song: Closer to Love, Album: City of Black and White, 2009

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• What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Children, Lovely, Purpose

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• I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.

  Kerry Cohen

  Hurt, Pain, Hands

  Kerry Cohen (2008). “Loose Girl”, p.253, Random House

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• And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

  Robin Wasserman

  Powerful, War, Greatness

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.302, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Ribs, Stories

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• If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Way, Praying

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• If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Eye, Elbows

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

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