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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.
ungrateful looks toronto
look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/... Bob Dylan
ungrateful superficial
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful. Brigitte Bardot
ungrateful guilt may
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. Edward Young
ungrateful-people heart thinking
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents... Douglas Wilson
ungrateful humanity firsts
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave. Ann Voskamp
ungrateful looks agents
If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!" Mickey Rooney
ungrateful band disrespectful
It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous. Mark Hoppus
ungrateful-people doe ungrateful-person
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people. Publilius Syrus
ungrateful feelings ignorant
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. George Sand
enemy interest permanent
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests. Carol Moseley Braun
enemy said guides
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.
enemy pressure ordinary
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.
enemy territory world
Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.
enemy thank-god dies
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies. Agnes de Mille
enemy i-can my-friends
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! Charlotte Bronte
enemy may weapons
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. Charles de Lint
enemy interesting-characters fellows
Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.