Quotes about Reward
Those who risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all
- Teresa of Avila
It were a well-spent journey, to creep hands and feet, through seven deaths and seven hells, to enjoy Him up at the well-head. Only let us not weary: the miles to that land are fewer and shorter than when we first believed; strangers are not wise to quarrel with their host, and complain of their lodging; it is a foul way, but a fair home.
- Samuel Rutherford
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
- Jesse Jackson
. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
- Gordon Hinckley
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a filed for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor.The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.
- John Piper