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gratitude doors silence
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. C. S. Lewis
gratitude grateful luxury
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.] Charlie Chaplin
gratitude grateful opportunity
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me. Charles Dickens
gratitude circles fire
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
treasure ancestor remembered
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. Edmund Burke
treasure afghanistan afghan
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. Camille Paglia
treasure extensions
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge. Democritus
treasure diagnosis this-life
This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it. Elizabeth Edwards
treasure littles trouble
Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith. Benjamin Franklin
treasure riches would-be
How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it. Brother Lawrence
treasure forget juliet
He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost. William Shakespeare
treasure wealth abundance
We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely. Bryant H. McGill
treasure persons
We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.
my-thoughts
When I believed my thoughts I suffered. Byron Katie
my-thoughts
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes. Denis Diderot
my-thoughts pure indignation
I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts. Eddie Vedder
my-thoughts
Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?" Rush Limbaugh