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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.
faithful france epoch
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France. Charles de Gaulle
faithful fans opportunity
There are a lot of faithful Vanderbilt fans who haven't had an opportunity like this. Erik Davis
faithful temples missionary
When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple. Richard G. Scott
faithful promise may
Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come. Aiden Wilson Tozer
faithful helping fidelity
Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help. Arthur Hugh Clough
faithful church ransom
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all. Blaise Pascal
faithful daily-life great-things
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? Dietrich Bonhoeffer
faithful being-faithful leaving-me
Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me. Elizabeth Edwards
faithful age novelty
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered. David Hume
tears tables relief
I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave. Bret Easton Ellis
tears lines and-love
There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears. Chris Botti
tears pearls gains
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness. William Shakespeare
tears reason merriment
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
tears might lasts
I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last! Elie Wiesel
tears minutes duty
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice. Juvenal
tears cry misinterpretation
Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry. Bob Marley
tears dry no-fear
Dry your tears, have no fears.
tears might looks
What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. Dean Koontz