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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ‘em both a little bit naive.
— Yip Harburg, “The Begat,” Finian’s Rainbow (1947)
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
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.
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).
Most glorious Lord of Life, that on this day,
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;
And having harrowed hell, didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win.
— Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life, by Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599).
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.
dwight l. moody— P. 532. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
" 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:
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
robert jordan— Mazrim Taim, after the battle of Dumai's Wells
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
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.
[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
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))
High up among the branches of a mighty tree she hugged the shrieking infant to her bosom, and soon the instinct that was as dominant in this fierce female as it had been in the breast of his tender and beautiful mother — the instinct of mother love — reached out to the tiny man-child's half-formed understanding, and he became quiet.Then hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English Lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape.
Edgar Rice Burroughs— Tarzan of the Apes, Ch. 4: The Apes (1912)
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
