Knees Quotes - Page 28

• Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

  Joan Didion

  Distance, Grief, Eye

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 19, 2013

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• Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

  Hugh Black

  Prayer, Attitude, Communication

  Hugh Black (1999). “The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself”, p.142, Sophia Institute Press

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• Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

  James O. Fraser

  Missionary, Done, Lasting

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 52), 1998.

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• This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Cities, Soul, Sorrow

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• Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

  Sam Hamill

  Government, Sound, Culture

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• 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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• A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

  Kevin Baggett

  Understanding, Missionary, Tasks

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• Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

  Pope Pius XII

  Two, Arms, Modesty

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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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• [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way."

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Prayer, Children

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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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• Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.

  William Booth

  Fire, Soul, Baptism

  William Booth (1890). “Salvation Soldiery: A Series of Addresses on the Requirements of Jesus Christ's Service”

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• How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Eye, Snow

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.93, Library of America

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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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• Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

  Mary Schmich

  Missing, Gone, Be Kind

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• Because I was flat out wrong
  I'm on my knees
  Begging that you
  Will forgive me, please

  John Walter Bratton

  Sorry, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

  Fred Beck

  Feet, Ifs

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