Lord Quotes - 4
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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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Lord, forgive me if my need
Sometimes shapes a human creed.
— On These I Stand, Heritage, Stanza 6 (1925)
This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.
Samuel Pepys— June 7, 1665
— Written during the Great Plague.
There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?
fyodor dostoevsky— Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)
Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.
Matthew Arnold— Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, The Funeral
Those who devour usury will not stand except as stand one whom the Evil one by his touch Hath driven to madness. That is because they say: "Trade is like usury," but Allah hath permitted trade and forbidden usury. Those who after receiving direction from their Lord, desist, shall be pardoned for the past; their case is for Allah (to judge); but those who repeat (The offence) are companions of the Fire: They will abide therein (for ever).
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— The Qur'an (?), Sura 2:275 (The Cow, ?), See also: Islamic banking
Mighty victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.
thomas gray— The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, lines 63-6 (1757).
Then said I, Lord, how long?
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 6:11.
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.
— Holy Communion, Nicene Creed.
Defer, defer, To the Lord High Executioner!
Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert— 1885 Chorus, The Mikado, act1.
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.
Our Lord does not praise the centurion for his amiable care of his servants, nor for his generosity to the Jews, nor for his public spirit, nor for his humility, but for his faith.
william adams— P. 222. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
In short, knowing that whatever may happen is ordained by the Lord, he will receive it with a peaceful and thankful heart, that he may not be guilty of proudly resisting the rule of him to whom he has once committed himself and all his belongings.
john calvin— Page 46 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
And yet there is an anger that purifies the heart:The anger of the better against the baser part,Against the false and wicked, against the tyrant's sword,Against the enemies of love, and all that hate the Lord.
henry van dyke— Righteous Wrath, st. 2 (January 1918).
Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley, get me the brandy!
mike lange— Quoted in Bob Smizik, "Cow-kicked: FSN fires Lange as Penguins' TV voice", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2006-06-30)
— Stated upon the Penguins winning their second Stanley Cup in 1992
Father of all! in every age,In every clime adored,By saint, by savage, and by sage,Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
Alexander Pope— Stanza 1.
Angels from the Lord lead and protect us every moment and every moment of every moment.
emanuel swedenborg— #5992 (Arcana Coelestia (1749 - 1756))
O Lord, another day has flown,And we, a lonely band,Are met once more before thy throne,To bless thy fostering hand
henry kirke white— Opening quatrain from White's hymn A Hymn of Family Worship The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White, Pickering London 1855
Prince, Bayard would have smashed his sword To see the sort of knights you dub-- Is that the last of them O Lord Will someone take me to a pub?
gilbert keith chesterton— "A Ballade Of An Anti-puritan" in The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) edited Carolyn Wells, p. 338
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on; Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knows Is some of it pr No, 't is not even prose!
james russell lowell— Pt. I - Emerson, st. 1
I would rather that this people should starve to death in the mountains, than to have the Lord Almighty hand us over to a cursed, infernal mob. I would rather go down to the grave in peace than to fight a mob, unless the Lord would give me enough Saints to fight and kill the poor devils; in such case I wish to live and fight them. But I never want to see a mob again drive and tread under foot the Saints.
Brigham Young— Journal of Discourses 3:224 (March 2, 1856)
Cast thy burden on the Lord, Only lean upon His word; Thou wilt soon have cause to bless His unchanging faithfulness.
— P. 600. (Quotes)
O Lord of Courage grave, O Master of this night of Spring! Make firm in me a heart too brave To ask Thee anything.
— John Galsworthy.
From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.
— Sir Robert Hutchison, 20th century physician, British Medical Journal, 1953; 1: 671.
I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
— George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, in Parliament (Feb. 19, 1884).
Our Substance is our Father, God Almighty, and our Substance is our Mother, God, All - wisdom ; and our Substance is in our Lord the Holy Ghost, God All- goodness .
— Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 58
I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
— P. 97. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Lord of the world, must I and my ass eat at one crib?
— Upon being told that he would have to eat the herbs of the ground, as reported in The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (1886) by Charles Taylor, p. 14
The name of the Lord is the mighty force He who takes refuge in Him is never abandoned. The castle of His grace becomes his shelter: They all resort to Him, great and small As with the touch of the mystical store Iron becomes gold .
— Suradasa’s (the blind poet) first form of Bhakti, quoted in "Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern" by K. R. Sundararajan, in p.63
