Quotes about Rare
what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.
— Philip Yancey
The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house.
— Mark Driscoll
The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen to this day.)
— 1 Kings 10:12
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
— Brennan Manning
And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.
— 1 Samuel 3:1
The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something. There is a terrible trap in always asking, "What's the use of this experience?" We can never measure spiritual matters in that way. The moments on the mountaintop are rare moments, and they are meant for something in God's purpose.
— Oswald Chambers
This was a rare treat: the wonderful sound of memory filled happiness.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
— Albert Einstein
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare
— Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
Godliness with contentment is rare.
— Craig Groeschel
Perhaps that's why faith is so rare and religion so widespread: because religion is very often a means to maintain our familiar image of God, even when it's pathological and destructive. We feel better with what we know, even when it does us in.
— Fr. Richard Rohr