Lions Quotes - Page 15

• Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

  Xenophanes

  Fashion, Horse, Humility

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• Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.

  Calvin Miller

  Christian, Jesus, Writing

  Calvin Miller (1984). “The Table of Inwardness”, Intervarsity Press

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• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

  Saint Peter

  Encouragement, Humble, Hands

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• The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

  Andrew Wommack

  Trying, Devil, Roaring

  Andrew Wommack (2006). “You've Already Got It!: So Quit Trying to Get It”, p.120, Harrison House Publishers

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• Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Religious, Hunting, Land

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• Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Heart, Bravery

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.102

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• Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!”

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Fighting, Gun

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• Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Shining, Waiting, Armor

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• Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

  John Henry Newman

  Artist

  John Henry Newman (1857). “Lectures on the present position of Catholics in England: adressed to the brothers of the Oratory”, p.4

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Work, Pride

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• ... it took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage ... if you deal with an audience as a bunch of people having a great time, you'll have a much bettrer time as a performer

  Rory Block

  Music, Years, People

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• Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Power, Body, Hares

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• In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

  Paul Valery

  Nerves, Looks, Revolution

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• You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man. When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Hate, Men

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• I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

  Jubal Early

  Firefly, Thinking, Might

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• Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Lying, Mean

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• You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.

  Carlo Gambino

  Strong, Smart, Scare

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• Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Peace, Wipe, Lambs

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• Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Loneliness, Men, Eagles

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• If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.

  Al-Mutanabbi

  Thinking, Teeth, Ifs

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• If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

  Darrell Waltrip

  Motivational, Sports, Exciting

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• What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Powerful, Men, Majestic

  Iyanla Vanzant (2010). “Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

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• Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Blessing, Suffering, Succeed

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• Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Sleep, Thinking

  "The Conspiracy of Fiesco" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. xviii, 1783.

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• I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Photography, Writing, Scientist

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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