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  • There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

    - Cecil Frances Alexander
      'There is a Green Hill Far  Away'

  • Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

    -Anonymous
    c.1790  'The Selkirk Grace', sometimes attributed to Robert Burns.

  • Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

    - StThomas Aquinas
      Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

  • O Lord! Thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.

    - SirJacob Astley
      Prayer before the Battle of Edgehill, 23 Oct. Quoted in Sir Philip Warwick Memoires (1702).

  • Late at e'en, drinkin'the wine, And ere they paid the lawin', They set a combat them between, To fight it at the dawin'. 'O stayat hame, my noble lord, O stay at hame, my marrow! My cruel brother will you betray On the dowie houms o' Yarrow!'

    -Ballads
    'The Dowie Houms o' Yarrow'.

  • Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de  go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

    - Charles Baudelaire
      Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage   a' Cyth e' re'.

  • Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots'and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy and proper drains. Lord, put beneathThy special care One-eighty-nine Cadogan Square.

    - SirJohn Betjeman
      Old Lights for New Chancels,'In Westminster  Abbey'.

  • And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the L is in this place; and I knew it not.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDGenesis 28:16.

  • The L watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDGenesis 31:49.

  • The L is a man of war: the L is his name.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDExodus15:3.

  • And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDORDORDORDORDORDExodus 20:1^17.

  • Who is on the L's side? let him come unto me.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDExodus 32:26.

  • And the L spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDExodus 33:11.

  • The L bless thee, and keep thee: The L makehisfaceshineuponthee, and be gracious unto thee: The L lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDNumbers 6:24^6.

  • Hear,O Israel: the L our God is one L: And thou shalt love the L thy God with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDDeuteronomy 6:4^5.

  • Ye shall not go afterother gods, of thegods ofthe people which are round about you; (For the L thy God is a jealous God among you).

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDDeuteronomy 6:14^15.

  • Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage: be not afraid, neither bethoudismayed: for the L thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDJoshua1:9.

  • Choose you this day whom ye will serve† but as for me and my house, we will serve the L.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDJoshua 24:15.

  • The sword of the L, and of Gideon.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDJudges 7:18.

  • And she said,The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the L was departed from him. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDJudges16:20^21.

  • The L called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. And heranunto Eli, and said,Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD1 Samuel 3:4^5.

  • Speak, L; for thy servant heareth.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD1 Samuel 3:9.

  • Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the L seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the L looketh on the heart.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORD1 Samuel16:7.

  • David said moreover,The L that delivered me out of thepawofthelion, and out ofthepawofthebear, hewill deliver me outofthehand ofthis Philistine. And Saulsaid unto David,Go, and the L be with thee.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORD1 Samuel17:37.

  • And David danced before the L with all his might.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD2 Samuel 6:14.

  • And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the L, she came to prove him with hard questions.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD1 Kings10:1.

  • Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the L be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD1 Kings18:21.

  • And, behold, the L passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the L; but the L was not in the wind: and after thewind anearthquake; butthe L wasnot inthe earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the L was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDORDORD1 Kings19:11^12.

  • For the eyes of the L run to and fro throughout the whole earth, toshew himself strong inthebehalfofthem whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. 1Kings

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD2 Chronicles16:9.

  • Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the L gave, and the L hath taken away; blessed be the name of the L.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDJob1:21.

  •    The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.

  •    Lift up your heads,O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The L strong and mighty, the L mighty in battle.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms 24:7^8.

  •    The L is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the L is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms 27:1.

  • O L our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy gloryabove the heavens.Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 8:1^2.

  • Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the L our God.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 20:7.

  •    Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.One thing have I desired of the L, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the L all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the L, and to inquire in his temple.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDPsalms 27:3^4.

  • I sought the L, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 34:4.

  • O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDPsalms 34:8^10.

  • Delightthyself also inthe L, and heshall givetheethe desires of thine heart.Commit thy way unto the L; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms 37:4^5.

  • I waited patiently for the L, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 40:1^2.

  • Great is the L, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 48:1^2.

  • Make a joyful noise unto the L, all ye lands. Serve the L with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the L he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDPsalms100:1^3.

  • Bless the L,O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.Bless the L,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies;Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms103:1^5.

  • The L said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms110:1.

  • Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the L: we have blessed you out of the house of the L.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms118:26.

  • I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the L, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The L is thy keeper: the L is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moonby night.The L shall preservetheefromallevil: he shall preserve thy soul. The L shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDORDORDPsalms121:1^8.

  •    Trust in the L with all thine heart; and lean not unto Psalms thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDProverbs 3:5^6.

  • They that trust in the L shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms125:1.

  • Except the L build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the L keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms127:1^2.

  • The name of the L is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDProverbs18:10.

  • Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lpondereth the hearts.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD Proverbs 21:2.

  • Then said I, Lord, how long?

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 6:11.

  • I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. And ye shall know that I am the L, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loath yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDEzekiel 20:41^3.

  • Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them,O ye dry bones, hear the word of the L.Thussaith the Lord G unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath inyou, and yeshall live; and ye shall know that I am the L.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDODORDEzekiel 37:4^6.

  • Then they that feared the L spake often one to another: and the L hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the L, and that thought upon his name.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDMalachi 3:16.

  • Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of thegreat and dreadfuldayof the L: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth a curse.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDMalachi 4:5^6.

  • My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation.

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Ecclesiasticus 2:1.

  • Saying,We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Ecclesiasticus 2:18.

  • A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him.

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Ecclesiasticus 6:16.

  • And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying,The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 3:2^3.

  • Jesus said unto him, It is written again,Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 4:7.

  • Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him,Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 4:8^10.

  • The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and myservant shall be healed.For Iama man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man,Go, and he goeth; and to another,Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed,Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 8:8^10.

  • And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord,saveus: weperish. And hesaithuntothem,Whyare ye fearful,O ye of littlefaith? Thenhearose, and rebuked St Matthew the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying,What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 8:25^7.

  • The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew10:24.

  • Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 24:42^3.

  • His lord said unto him,Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will maketheerulerover many things: enter thou intothejoy of thy lord.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 25:21.

  •    And he said unto them,The sabbath was made for man, and not manfor thesabbath:Thereforethe Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Mark 2:27^8.

  • And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Mark 9:24.

  • And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent emptyaway.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke1:46^53.

  • And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke16:8.

  • And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how hehad said unto him,Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke 22:61.

  • Be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.Jesus saith unto him,Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St  John 20:27^9.

  • Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said,Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Acts of the  Apostles 9:3^5.

  • Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.Benot wise inyourown conceits.Recompenseto no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Romans12:16^19.

  • Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Romans14:8.

  •    For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Hebrews12:6.

  • What is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    James 4:14^15.

  • But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Peter 3:10^11.

  • And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDSRevelation19:16.

  • Magnificat anima mea Dominum; et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salvatore meo. My soul doth magnify the Lord: and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. See Bible (NewTestament) 115:23.

    -Bible (Vulgate)
    St Luke1:46.

  • Possibly not, My Lord, but far better informed.

    - F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
    In reply to a judge who had complained 'I have read your case, Mr Smith, and I am no wiser now than I was when I started'. Quoted in 2nd Earl of Birkenhead F. E.: The Life of F. E. Smith, First Earl of Birkenhead (1959), ch.9.

  • Lord God of Sabaoth.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Morning Prayer, Te Deum.

  •    We do not presume to come to this thyTable,O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thyTable.But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion, Prayer of Humble  Access.

  • Lord of all powerand might, who arttheauthorand giver of all good things.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Collects,7th Sunday after Trinity.

  • And I believe in the Holy Ghost,The Lord and giver of life,Who proceedeth fromthe Father and Son,Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified,Who spake by the Prophets.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion, Nicene Creed.

  • First, It was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.

  • God isgoneup with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Psalm 47:5.

  • I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

    -William Cowper
      Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of  Juan Fernandez'.

  • Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.

    - Countee Cullen
      On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

  • Imagine the Lord talking French! Aside from a few odd wordsin Hebrew,Itook it forgrantedthat God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English.

    - Clarence Shepard Day
      Life With Father,'Father interferes'.

  •    Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

    - Philip Doddridge
    Hymns,'Ye Servants of the Lord' (published1755).

  • And all small fowlys singis on the spray: Welcum the lord of lycht and lamp of day.

    - Gavin Douglas
    c.1513  Eneados, bk.12, prologue. English poet.  Only  one  volume  of  his  poems  was  published in his lifetime,  and he was  killed in action  shortly  after  the D-Day landings in Normandy.

  • No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

  • Polyphiloprogenitive The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift across the window-panes In the beginning was the Word.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service'.

  • The dayThou gavest, Lord, is ended, The darkness falls at Thy behest.

    -John Ellerton
      A Liturgy for Missionary Meetings,'The Day Thou Gavest'.

  • There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

    - Eleanor Farjeon
      Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

  • Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. See Blacker132:93.

    - Howell Maurice Forgy
      At Pearl Harbor,7 Dec. Reported in the NewYork Times, 1 Nov1942, and used as a song title by Frank Loesser,1942.

  • I do not believe in Belief† Lord I disbelievehelp thou my unbelief.

    - E(dward) M(organ) Forster
    Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'.

  • Forgive,O Lord, my little jokes onThee And I'll forgiveThy great big one on me.

    - Robert Lee Frost
      'The Preacher', complete poem.

  • Defer, defer, To the Lord High Executioner!

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
      Chorus, The Mikado, act1.

  • Thetheme defeatsstructuralism, for it isanemotion.The theme of Lord of the Flies isgrief, sheer grief, grief, grief, grief.

    - Sir William (Gerald) Golding
      'Moving Target'.

  • Ye holyangels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Flyat your Lord's command, Assist our song, Or else the theme too high doth seem For mortal tongue.

    -John Hampden Gurney
      'Ye Holy AngelsBright', basedon a poemby RichardBaxter (1615^91).

  • For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.

    - Robert Henryson
    c.1460  'The Praise of  Age', l.5^9.

  • Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.

    - Robert Henryson
    c.1470  The Testament of Cresseid, stanza 65.

  • Lord of all being, throned afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star; Centre and soul of every sphere, Yet to each loving heart how near!

    - Oliver Wendell Holmes
    ^9  The Professor at the Breakfast  Table,'A Sun-Day Hymn'.

  •    Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

    -Gerard Manley Hopkins
      'Thou art indeed just, Lord'.

  •    Mine eyeshave seen thegloryof the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He hath loosed the fatal lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.

    -JuliaWard Howe
      'Battle Hymn of the Republic'.

  • This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Of Lord Chesterfield. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

  • Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, 22 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

  • All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell, Come ye before Him, and rejoice.

    -William   d. c.1608 Kethe
      Daye's Psalter,'All People That on Earth Do Dwell'.

  • I've been to the mountain top. I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land.I may not get there with you, but Iwant you to know tonight that we as a people will get to thepromised land.So,I'mhappy tonight.Mine eyeshave seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

    - Martin LutherJr King
      Speech at Memphis, 3  Apr, the day before he was assassinated.

  • Keep ye the lawbe swift in all obedience Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By thepeaceamongourpeopleslet men know weserve the Lord!

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'A Song of the English'.

  • Mankind, fear your Lord, who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered abroad many men and women; and fear God by whom you demand one of another, and the wombs; surely God ever watches over you.

    -The Koran
    Sura 4, l.1.

  • Thy Lord has decreed you shall not serve any but Him, and to be good to parents, whether one or both of them attains old age with thee; say not to them 'Fie'neither chide them, but speak unto them words respectful, and lower to them the wing of humbleness out of mercy and say: 'My Lord, have mercy on them, as they raised me up when I was little.'

    -The Koran
    Sura17, l.23^4.

  • Say: 'If theseawere ink for theWords of my Lord, thesea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.'

    -The Koran
    Sura18, l.110.

  • By the snorting chargers, by the strikers of fire, by the dawn raiders blazing a trail of dust, cleaving there with a host! Surely Man is ungrateful to his Lord.

    -The Koran
    Sura100,1^6.

  •    But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

    - Aemilia Lanyer
    Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's  Apology in Defense of Women'.

  • Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself uponhishorse and rode madly off in all directions.

    - Stephen Butler Leacock
    Nonsense Novels,'Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen'.

  • The Lord survives the rainbow of his will.

    - RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
      'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', last line.

  • Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless,O, abide with me.

    - Henry Francis Lyte
      Remains,'Abide with Me' (published1850).

  • Lourd on my hert as winter lies The state that Scotland's in the day. Spring to the North has aye come slow But noo dour winter's like to stay For guid, And no'for guid!

    -Grieve
      To Circumjack Cencrastus, or The Curly Snake.

  •    And I thought,'My lord, one thing is certain, and that's that they'll make musicals one day about the glamour- studded1950s.'And I thought, my heaven, one thing is certain too, I'm miserable.

    - Colin MacInnes
      Absolute Beginners.

  • During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideals of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hopeto live for, and toseerealized.But My Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

    - Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
      Speech in court, 20  Apr, when charged under the Suppression of Communism  Act and facing the death penalty.

  • At Play InThe Fields Of The Lord.

    - Peter Matthiessen
       Title of novel.

  • World, world, I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all, But never knew like this; Here such a pattern is As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year: My soul is all but out of melet fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

    - Edna St Vincent Millay
      God's World.

  • Lord Hailsham said the other day that the machinery of Government was creaking. My Lords, it is not even moving sufficiently to emit a noise of any kind.

    - (Alexander) Victor Edward Paulet Montagu
      House of Lords, 20  Apr, shortly before disclaiming his peerage.

  •    Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake, Scatter my ashes, strew them in the air Lord! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.

    -James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose
      'Lines Composed on the Eve of his Execution'.

  • The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.

    - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
      Of the avoidance of casualties in the Haitian intervention. In the US News and World Report, 9  Jan.

  • Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

    -John Muir
    A Thousand-Mile Walkto theGulf, ch.5,'Through Florida Swamps and Forests' (published1916).

  • From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

    -Thomas Nashe
      Summer's Last Will and Testament.

  • Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath close'  d Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us!

    -Thomas Nashe
      'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

  • Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

    -Thomas Otway
      Don Carlos, act 2.

  • Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

    -Thomas Otway
      Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

  • Now it came to pass†that theTartars made them a King whosenamewas Chinghis Kaan[Genghis Khan].Hewas a manof great worth, and of great ability, and valour. And as soon as the news that he had been chosen King was spread abroad through those countries, all theTartars in the world came to him and owned him for their Lord.

    - Marco Polo
    c.1310  Quoted in Col. HenryYule (ed and trans) The Book of Ser Marco Polo, theVenetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East (1871), 2 vols.

  • Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle 2, l.15^18.

  •    Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

    - Sir Walter Raleigh
      'TheAuthor's Epitaph, Made by Himself'. Poem written the night before his death.

  • This pretty ring† I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one.

    -Iron
      The Story of an African Farm, ch.17,'Lyndall'.

  • He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      The Lay of the Last Minstrel, introduction.

  • The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul he doth restore again: and me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear no ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.

    -Scottish Metrical Psalms
      Translation of Psalm 23:1^4.

  • How lovely is thy dwelling-place O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant, Lord, they be!

    -Scottish Metrical Psalms
      Psalm 84:1.

  • All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice. Know that the Lord is God indeed; Without our aid he did us make: We are his folk, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.

    -Scottish Metrical Psalms
      Psalm100:1^3.

  • I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid. My safety cometh from the Lord, Who heav'n and earth hath made.

    -Scottish Metrical Psalms
      Psalm121:1^2.

  •    Our Lord†said that if men withheld their praise of him, 'the very stones would cry out', which they did as, later, they burst into Gothic cathedrals.

    - FultonJohn Sheen
      TheseAre the Sacraments.

  • Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

    - Edmund Spenser
      Amoretti, sonnet 68.

  • Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

    - Edmund Spenser
      Amoretti, sonnet 68.

  • A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help when in trouble.

    - Adlai E(wing) Stevenson
      Speech,Washington, Jan.

  • No little lily-handed baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain.

    -Tennyson
      The Princess,'Conclusion', l.84^9.

  • Our little systems have their day; They have their dayand cease to be; Theyare but broken lights of thee, And thou,O Lord, art more than they.

    -Tennyson
      In Memoriam A.H.H., prologue, l.17^20.

  • 'Sink me the ship, Master Gunnersink her, split her in twain! Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!' And the gunner said 'Ay, ay,' but the seamen made reply: 'We have children we have wives, And the Lord hath spared our lives.'

    -Tennyson
      'The Revenge', stanzas11^12, l.89^93.

  •    Whoever is Lord of Malacca hashishand onthethroat of Venice.

    -Tome   Pires
    ^15  TheSuma Oriental ofTome   Pires (translated byArmando Cortasao,1944).

  • Esta gente e   boa e de boa simplicidade. E imprimir-se-a ligeiramente neles cualquer cunho, que les quiserem dar. E logo lhes, Nosso Senhor, deu bons corpos e bons rostos, como a bons homens, e Ele que nos por aqui trouxe, creio que na‹  o foi sem causa. E portanto,Vossa Alteza, pois tanto deseja acrescentar na santa fe   cato l ica, deve entender em sua salva c° a‹  o. These people are good and simple.You can stamp on them any design that you wish to give them. And Our Lord gave them good bodies and good faces, and I think that it was his plan that we arrive here. Therefore,Your Majesty, since you wish so much to increase Catholic faith, you must provide for their salvation.

    - Pero Vaz de Caminha
    Carta (published1817).

  • Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again, I say rejoice.

    - Charles Wesley
      'Rejoice, the Lord is King'. In Hymns for our Lord's Resurrection.

  • Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

    -John Greenleaf Whittier
      'The Brewing of Soma'.

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