Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Caleb Colton

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Charles Stanley

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Charles Stanley

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Charles Stanley

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Edwin Louis Cole

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Blaise Pascal

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

B. F. Skinner

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Charles Dickens

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

Charles Dickens

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Charles Stanley

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

Charles Stanley

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

Charles Stanley

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Charles Stanley

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Charles Stanley

Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him, even before Mo was here.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Lakpa Sherpa

We have no car, no bicycle, and no roads. We have to walk everywhere.

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Charles Baudelaire

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

Bessie Coleman

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Frank Robinson

With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Ferran Adria

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.