Quotes about Lord
It's quite right the land should be ploughed and sowed, and the precious corn stored, and the things of this life cared for, and right that people should rejoice in their families, and provide for them, so that this is done in the fear of the Lord, and that they are not unmindful of the soul's wants while they are caring for the body.
- George Eliot
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
- Martin Luther
We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.
- Jim Elliot
One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
- Charles Spurgeon
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
- St. Augustine
Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures,Above all Brother SunWho brings us the day and lends us his light.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
every man's Judgment cometh from the Lord. And be glad that it is so, for Christ is the clerk of your process, and will see that all go right; and
- Samuel Rutherford
Be content, ye are His wheat growing in our Lord's field. And if wheat, ye must go under our Lord's threshing instrument, in His barn-floor, and through His sieve, and through His mill to be bruised, as the Prince of your salvation, Jesus, was (Isa. 53:10), that ye may be found good bread in your Lord's house.
- Samuel Rutherford
duties are ours, events are the Lord's.
- Samuel Rutherford
My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.
- Teresa of Avila