Lord Quotes - 2
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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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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).
…it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.
john calvin— Page 42 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
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)
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall 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.
david— Psalms 23:1-3
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))
It is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 4:7 (KJV), said to Satan.
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ‘em both a little bit naive.
— Yip Harburg, “The Begat,” Finian’s Rainbow (1947)
[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.
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)
But you, my Lord and venerable pope, you who take the place of Christ, and the successor to the supreme shepherd in apostolic dignity, do not through sloth allow this pestilence to grow, do not by conniving and dissimulation loosen the reins on this raging impurity. This disease is spreading like a cancer, and its poisonous breed will reach out endlessly unless its evil growth is cut off by the scythe of the gospel.
peter damian— Letter 61:14. To Pope Nicholas II. Damian “deplores the situation in which bishops live in public concubinage to the scandal of some, and to the delight of others who ridicule the leadership of the Church on this account.” January - July 1059.
— The Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, Letters 61-90, 1992, Owen J. Blum, tr., Catholic University of America Press, ISBN 0813207509 ISBN 978-0813207506, vol. 3, p. 12 [4]
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God 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 in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Bible (Old Testament)— Ezekiel 37:4-6 (KJV)
Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee,O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.
— Evening Prayer, Third Collect, for Aid against Perils.
Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz, My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
janis joplin— 1970 'Mercedes-Benz', co-written with Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth.
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.
Montrose, James Graham, 1st Marquis of— 1650 'Lines Composed on the Eve of his Execution'.
As Lord Chesterfield said ofthegenerals of his day,'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do'.
— 1810 Letter, 29 Aug, during the PeninsularWar. Collected in Supplementary Despatches (1860).
The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.
ignatius of loyola— Spiritual Exercises, No. 138 (1548)
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
aiden wilson tozer— As quoted in The Banner, Dec. 4, 1970, p. 2
"...there came another rush of love through my soul, an' I cried out loud – 'Lord, Lord, I can love even de white folks!'"
sojourner truth— Olive Gilbert & Sojourner Truth (1878), Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time, page 159.
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.
ravi zacharias— Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message. 2000. p. 28-29. ISBN 9780849943270.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act III, scene 2, line 115.
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
Galileo Galilei— Notes in a copy of Jean-Baptiste Morin's "Famous and ancient problems of the earth's motion or rest, yet to be solved" (published 1631), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1976) by Giorgio De Santillana, p. 167
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
robert jordan— Mazrim Taim, after the battle of Dumai's Wells
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.
john milton— On the Late Massacre in Piedmont (1655).
By the Lord before whom this sanctuary is holy, I will to N. be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns, according to the laws of God and the order of the world. Nor will I ever with will or action, through word or deed, do anything which is unpleasing to him, on condition that he will hold to me as I shall deserve it, and that he will perform everything as it was in our agreement when I submitted myself to him and chose his will.
— Anglo-Saxon oath of fealty. An oath of fealty is what knights said to their lord as a promise of loyalty. [1]
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.
Anthony Burgess— English writer and composer (1917 - 1993)
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
thomas bailey aldrich— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Two Moods.
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
— By Oscar Wilde in Janel Bragg (1 October 2005). Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray---Illustrated Collector's Edition. Lulu.com. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-4116-5236-1.
One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France : 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.
— Brennan Manning, in The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out, 19-Aug-2008, p106
Don’t mess with the needle or a spoon Or any trip to the moon It’ll take you away Lord, their gonna bury you boy Don’t mess with the needle Now I know, I know, I know...
— Ronnie Van Zant, "The Needle and the Spoon", as performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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.
— 1 Samuel 17:45-47 (KJV)
