Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Charles Dickens

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

Charles Stanley

God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

Charles Stanley

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.

Charles Spurgeon

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Charles Spurgeon

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

William Shakespeare

Good things should be praised.

William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise.

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Aristotle

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

L. Estrange

Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him

Jane Austen

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Iveta Benesova

She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.

Monk Frost

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

Steve Bruce

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

Winston Churchill

When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

James M. Barrie

Oh, the cleverness of me!