Thee Quotes - Page 22

• Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Soul, Ahimsa

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• During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, Dirty, Flower

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• There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wall, Men, Evil

  Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint John Chrysostom Collection [10 Books]”, p.2690, Aeterna Press

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• Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Oracles, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Divinity, Divine, Epithet

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) act 5, sc. 5

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• Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Thinking, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

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• O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Art, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 56

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• O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Heaven, Would Be

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• Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

  Charles Spurgeon

  World, Gains, Favour

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.362, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, May, Hang Over

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• Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Jesus, Art

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.9, Discovery House

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• Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

  Francis Quarles

  Dresses, Language, Injury

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• Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

  Augustus Toplady

  Rocks, Age, Let Me

  "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me" (hymn) (1776)

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  John Milton

  Justice, May, Mercy

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.283

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• God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

  Jim Elliot

  Light, May, Sticks

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• Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

  John Donne

  Home, Eye, Long

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.107, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Deeds, Littles

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• God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beautiful, Art, Goodness

  Lord Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”

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• When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

  Jakob Bohme

  Art, Silence, Saws

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• When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

  Jakob Bohme

  Thinking, Self, Hearing

  Jakob Böhme (1781). “The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher”

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• A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity, Preserves, Thyself

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.490

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• Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

  Charles Lamb

  Daughter, Farewell, Dark

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• God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

  Children, Wounded

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• Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

  Stephen Crane

  Art, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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• For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

  Thomas Malory

  Kings, Flower, Heart

  Sir Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver (1975). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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