Thee Quotes - Page 14

• If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Men, Grace

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Son, Blessing

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• I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

  Henry Kirke White

  Dog, Yes I Can, Mouths

  Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1822). “The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge”, p.73

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• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Children, Simplicity

  'Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild'

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• Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

  Charles Wesley

  Thinking, Names, Speak

  1749 'Forth in Thy Name', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

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• When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.

  Charles Wesley

  Sleep, Tears, May

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• Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Mother, Dream, Baby

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• Oh, my soul! why art thou so often disquieted within thee? How is it that thou hast so little faith? Wilt thou never learn that Jesus has even the least of His little boats always under His watchful eye, and all the winds and the waves obey Him?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Art, Eye

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 236, 1895.

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• Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,—thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present store—No line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Art, Stars, Children

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.230

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• And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.

  Solomon

  Strong, Land, Names

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• And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

  Harry Chapin

  Cutting, Knives, Stories

  Song: Story of a Life, 1980

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• I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

  Harry Chapin

  Singing, Band, Bows

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• Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Art, Men, World

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”

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• The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

  Horatius Bonar

  Forgiveness, Effort, Doe

  Horatius Bonar (1857). “The story of grace ...”, p.63

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• Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

  Horatius Bonar

  Self, Selfishness, Each Day

  Horatius Bonar (1866). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series”, p.85

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• Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

  Ivan Panin

  Adversity, Nails, Hammered

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• Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

  Ivan Panin

  Failure, Opportunity, Being Thankful

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• Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Brother, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

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• Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Ambition, Humility, Knees

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• How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

  David

  Numbers, Sand, Should

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• I ask Thee for a thankful love,
  Through constant watching wise,
  To meet the glad with joyful smiles,
  And to wipe the weeping eyes,
  And a heart at leisure from itself,
  To soothe and sympathize.

  Anna Laetitia Waring

  Sympathy, Wise, Heart

  "Father I know that all my Life, Hymns and Meditations" by Anna Laetitia Waring, (p. 2), 1850.

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• Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.

  George Darley

  Morning, Eye, Sun

  George Darley (1827). “Sylvia; or, The May queen, a lyrical drama”, p.111

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• Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.

  James I of Scotland

  Tongue, Wells

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• Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

  Roberto Bolano

  Dream, Morning, Light

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• Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

  Alan Judd

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

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