Quotes about Things
Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
— Thomas a Kempis
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
— Philip James Bailey
Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.
— Charles Dickens
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The searchlight of [God's] Spirit will probe the inner depths of your soul and reveal things that you think you have already yielded, but you have not.
— Billy Graham
And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee. And yet did I not press on to enjoy my God; but was borne up to Thee by Thy beauty, and soon borne down from Thee by mine own weight, sinking with sorrow into these inferior things.
— St. Augustine
and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.
— Herman Melville
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
— Richard Sibbes
The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things:
— George Eliot
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
— St. Augustine
We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
— John Milton