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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.
night reality light
At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality. Carole Bouquet
nightlife said courses
When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself. Carl Barat
night men feet
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
night week like-facebook
Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily. Aaron Sorkin
night doe mathematics
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
night imagine reason
I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night. Charlie Daniels
night shadow hiding
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows. Charles de Lint
night doors hands
For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.
night liberty sun
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
thankfulness littles
Thankfulness makes much of little. Charles Spurgeon
thankfulness recognition polite
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence. Billy Graham
thankfulness bread forgotten
Eaten bread is forgotten. Thomas Fuller
thankfulness christ obedience
I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it. John Gresham Machen
thankfulness recognition faithfulness
Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God. Jerry Bridges
thankfulness looks look-up
Look up on high, and thank the God of all. Geoffrey Chaucer
thankfulness christ appreciative
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had. James Brown
thankfulness able bears
Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities. Pope Benedict XVI
thankfulness showing-up enough
I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you. James Taylor