Lord Quotes
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Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 9:37–38 (KJV), said to his disciples.
Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.
— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 344.
Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.
sarada devi— Thus Spake the Holy Mother (p. 78).
Guwahati is considered the site of Pragjyotishpura, a semi- mythical town founded by Asura King Naraka who was later killed by Lord Krishna for a pair of magical earrings . The city was a vibrant cultural centre well before the Ahoms arrived, and later the theatre of intense Ahom- Mughal fighting, changing hands eight times in the 50 years before 1681. Most of the old city was wiped out by a huge 1897 earthquake followed by a series of devastating floods .
— Lonely Planet, in Guwahati:History, Lonely Planet
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. On the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher and saw the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
— Matthew 28:1-2's account of the discovery of the tomb (two Mary's arrive at the tomb after sunrise, but before the stone had been removed) versus John 20:1's account (one Mary arrives at the tomb before sunrise, but after the stone had been removed).
We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.
sarada devi— Swami Saradeshananda (1976-1981). "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". Vedanta Kesari.
He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him?
sarada devi— (1969) "Holy Mother", Prabuddha Bharatha.
Step by step, He had raised their conceptions of Him nearer the unspeakable grandeur of His true nature and work. At first the Teacher, He had, after a time, by gradual disclosures, revealed Himself as the Son of God veiled in the form of man; and, now, since His crucifixion and resurrection, He had taught them to see in Him the Messiah, exalted to immortal and Divine majesty, as the conqueror of Death and the Lord of all.
john cunningham geikie— The Life and Words of Christ (1886), p. 607.
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
tobias smollett— Tobias Smollett, Ode to Independence, line 1.
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
Bible (Old Testament)— The Bible, Numbers 6:26
Thou comest to me with a sword, and with A spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. [...] And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with the sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
david— 1 Samuel 17:45-47 (KJV)
It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. […] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.
ovadia yosef— Undated sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs; a Shas spokesman stated Yosef only meant "Arab murderers and terrorists"
— "Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs". news.bbc.co.uk (BBC News). 10 April 2001.
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— 1611Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.
Perseverance, dear my Lord, Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
william shakespeare— Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act III, scene 3, line 150, Ulysses.
At last, after muche reasoning, when no reason woulde serue, although he deserued no death, he was…brought forth to the place of execution, was there tied to þe stake, and then strangled first by the hangman, and afterward with fire consumed in the morning at the towne of Filford, an. 1536. crieng thus at the stake with a feruente zeale, and a loud voyce: Lord open the King of Englands eyes.
john foxe— Bk. 8, p. 1079
Our eyes must be upon the Lord, not upon His people. His means – not ours, not theirs, but His means are large; and to a faithful steward He will prove a faithful master.
james hudson taylor— (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 382.)
" And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy is not better known in anything than in pardoning a Dismas (the traditional name of the good thief) on the Cross and a Dominicus Corea on the gallows. If in Hell there is room for sinners, in Heaven also there is room for penitents."
dominicus corea— The last address of King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Rala) on the gallows in Colombo before he was executed by the Portuguese - as quoted in:
Four things which are not in thy treasury, I lay before thee, Lord, with this petition: My nothingness, my wants, My sins, and my contrition.
— Robert Southey, Occasional Pieces, XIX. Imitated from the Persian.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
jonathan swift— Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, Dialogue II.
So distinguished by a Divine wisdom, power, and goodness, are God's works of creation and providence, that all nature, by the gentle voices of her skies and streams, of her fields and forests, as well as by the roar of breakers, the crash of thunder, the rumbling earthquake, the fiery volcano, and the destroying hurricane, echoes the closing sentences of this angel hymn, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, the whole earth is full of His glory!
— Thomas Guthrie, p. 429 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
— Proverbs 31, 30.
I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if a war of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
john muir— A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, ch.5,'Through Florida Swamps and Forests' (published1916).
Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: [...] The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
david— 1 Samuel 17:33-37 (KJV)
Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung and liver, In her guts a galling give her.
john millington synge— The Curse
Kerala 's capital Tiruvanathapuram or Trivandrum which is infinitely easier to say and write was named after the Serpent God Anantha, on whom Lord Vishnu reclines.
— Aline Dobbie, in India: The Elephant's Blessing, 2006, p.128
[Kratos: Even in death, you stand tall for battle.]Thank you, Lord Kratos.
— Who: Spartan Defender
— Note: Mortally wounded by Erinys while defending the path to Sparta, and is comforted by Kratos as he dies.
The Mahapuranas contain 400,000 slokas . They are four times the size of Mahabharata . In these, six are Satvic or Vaishnava Puranas and glorify Lord Vishnu, six are Rajasic or Brahma Puranas and glorify Lord Brahma, and six are Tamasic or Shiva Puranas and glorify Lord Shiva.
— Shantha N. Nair, in "Echoes of Ancient Indian Wisdom: The Universal Hindu Vision and Its Edifice (1 January 2008)", p.266
Perséverance, dear my Lord, Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
william shakespeare— Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses, Act III, scene iii
