But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”
- Judges 6:31
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
- Thomas a Kempis
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in