Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Charles Dickens

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

Charles Dickens

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Charles Dickens

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

Charles Spurgeon

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

Charles Spurgeon

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

Charles Spurgeon

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

Charles Spurgeon

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

Beatrix Potter

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Elizabeth Montagu

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Edsel Ford

There are no crown princes at Ford,

Juvenal

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Juvenal

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

Juvenal

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

Rabiah Ahmed

We are a target of many hate campaigns, given our exposure on controversial issues. We screen them for threats. When it crosses the line, we report it to the FBI.

Andrew Wyatt

There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.

Stephen Vizinczey

Like all wage-slaves,he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.

Billy Connolly

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

Kyle Beatty

The fact that it is fast moving would limit things like damage from rain fall. But the fast movement contributes higher wind speeds and means it will be fairly strong when it crosses the state.

Jon Carey

She was a sweetheart. She was quirky, she was shy, but not if you knew her. ... (She was) just someone that crosses your path in life that was just a super person, a super human being.

Victoria Beckham

She's an interesting one, she's worked really well for us ? she sort of crosses the line. I think people are still fascinated by what's going on in her life.

George Washington

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