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AESCHYLUS For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEY Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream.
JOHN THOMAS "SPIDER" SALLEY An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
THOMAS KEMPIS A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
THOMAS A KEMPIS I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to cal...
STEPHEN LANG Acquaint thyself with God.
A.W. TOZER Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
MENANDER God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
AESCHYLUS God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard
AESCHYLUS Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-viole...
MAHATMA GANDHI You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
MEISTER ECKHART The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.
CRISS JAMI Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as Call Me God) to KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to ...
ANTHONY SAMPSON Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as ''Call Me God'') to KCMG (''Kindly Call Me Go...
ANTHONY SAMPSON When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnip...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha...
JAMES MACDONALD God has given you the power to be the miracle worker.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
LELAND RYKEN After you have done your best and you still need more then you can call on God for miracles.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him af...
OSCAR WILDE I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. Shall i not call God ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We center our lives around our faith, and we try to put God first in our lives.
ALLYSON DARNELL God is a good worker but loves to be helped
BASQUE PROVERB People who call Reggie White a bigot and homophobic, beware, because you're calling God himself a bi...
REGGIE WHITE There is no greater life, than to love God. And to love thy neighbor as thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Every man for himself and God for us all.
PROVERB Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man
ALEXANDER POPE Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.
LAO TZU Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God . . . there would have been no need for God to send H...
BILLY GRAHAM Does your problem seem bigger than life, bigger than God himself? It isn't. God is infinitely bigger...
BILL HYBELS Oh, God — the lives people try to lead.
Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
THOMAS TUSSER No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the...
JACQUES ELLUL I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptur...
BRENNAN MANNING God made them? You think God made them? Did God call White Flower Farm and order the bulbs? Did God ...
PHYLLIS ROSE One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES ...the wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person...
GORDON T. SMITH It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS When God wins your heart, He has won it forever.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" Th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
WILLIAM BLAKE Mike is a little guy, about 285 pounds, and Leo is about 355 pounds. Leo has really improved. He len...
DIRK KOETTER I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God w...
ALBERT EINSTEIN One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to tu...
DONALD GREY BARNHOUSE Imagination is thee ability to creat witch god gave us in witch god himself created man in his image...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vi...
BIBLE We were there within six to seven minutes after we got the call. The students and faculty were alrea...
DON ARNOLD For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, p...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
ROBERT BROWNING We have the ability to creat throw our imagination witch god gave to us in witch god himself created...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA When we see God in all life forms, only then do we begin to see God Himself.
DR NIRVADHA SINGH I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next
LAURENCE STERNE Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed...
BLAISE PASCAL God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
RICK YANCEY God. I may end up being the first man in history capable of masturbating without touching himself. L...
EMMA CHASE In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only tw...
BHAGAT SINGH It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work...
OSWALD CHAMBERS God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, ...
KARL BARTH I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Seeking God first will always put us in the correct position and aim us in the right direction to mo...
STORMIE OMARTIAN Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgi...
CONFUCIUS After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first help...
C.S. LEWIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and th...
MOHANDAS GANDHI God Himself is the Forgiver.
GURU GOBIND SINGH He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
R. D. LAING Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 It is clear that he does not pray, wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Whoso goes seeking God...
MEISTER ECKHART …he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Those who think God did this almost incredible ...
J. B. PHILLIPS If The Sky Was To Start Falling, How Many Of You Will Try Catching Clouds?...God Come First.
FLAMESTARTA God did not call us to make history; God called us to be history!
JOHN M SHEEHAN God sees Himself in the eyes of the refined soul.
ROBIN BERTRAM Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing...
BIBLE My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
C.S. LEWIS The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Spr...
MEL TILLIS Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no H...
MEISTER ECKHART Becoming God’s reflection first in our private life and walking before God creates a wonderful pla...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Anyone that hits anything, you would know that you've hit something. You need to stop and at least c...
BETTY SCHWAB So walk in love as Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to...
EPHESIANS 5 2 I tried hard to understand that there is no God But i failed . and now i chose to be smarter than to...
ANWAR DANI God gave you life to entertain Himself.
SUPERNA BATHEJA In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
H. R. HAWEIS God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
HERODOTUS God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
AFRICAN PROVERB God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it...
RICK WARREN God himself and Jesus relied upon light to function on the earth
SUNDAY ADELAJA

More Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EURIPIDES One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
EURIPIDES He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES He is not a lover who does not love forever.
EURIPIDES The greatest pleasure of life is love.
EURIPIDES There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
EURIPIDES Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
EURIPIDES But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
EURIPIDES The wavering mind is but a base possession.
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
EURIPIDES Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
EURIPIDES Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
EURIPIDES It is change; all yields its place and goes.
EURIPIDES Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EURIPIDES Authority is never without hate.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
EURIPIDES Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPIDES There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
EURIPIDES In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EURIPIDES No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
EURIPIDES Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
EURIPIDES 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
EURIPIDES Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EURIPIDES To generous souls every task is noble.
EURIPIDES Noble fathers have noble children.
EURIPIDES To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES The bold are helpless without cleverness.
EURIPIDES The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
EURIPIDES Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
EURIPIDES There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
EURIPIDES It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EURIPIDES O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
EURIPIDES Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDES It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
EURIPIDES God helps him who strives hard.
EURIPIDES The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
EURIPIDES It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EURIPIDES Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
EURIPIDES Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EURIPIDES There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
EURIPIDES Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDES Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
EURIPIDES No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
EURIPIDES Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDES Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
EURIPIDES For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
EURIPIDES Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES [Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
EURIPIDES Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
EURIPIDES The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
EURIPIDES Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
EURIPIDES Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES He who believes needs no explanation.
EURIPIDES He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
EURIPIDES Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
EURIPIDES A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
EURIPIDES Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
EURIPIDES Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
EURIPIDES Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPIDES Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
EURIPIDES Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
EURIPIDES Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
EURIPIDES A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EURIPIDES A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
EURIPIDES Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Your very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDES Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES Youth holds no society with grief.
EURIPIDES What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EURIPIDES My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES Leave no stone unturned.
EURIPIDES In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EURIPIDES I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
EURIPIDES You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
EURIPIDES Time cancels young pain.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble...
EURIPIDES I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
EURIPIDES Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
EURIPIDES This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
EURIPIDES It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk
EURIPIDES Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
EURIPIDES What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
EURIPIDES The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
EURIPIDES If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES For a sickness, love is the healthiest
EURIPIDES Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
EURIPIDES Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES Unhappiness remembering happiness.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways
EURIPIDES Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
EURIPIDES Money is the wise man's religion
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
EURIPIDES It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
EURIPIDES If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES