A Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Cradle Custom Leaves Meets Only Tomb Us

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Robert Green Ingersoll
American - Lawyer
August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

John Stott

Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.

Rich Mullins

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

Peter Marshall

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Hosea Ballou

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

Terry Pratchett

He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.

Robert Farrar Capon

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Hesketh Pearson

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

Anais Nin

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

Jean de la Bruyere

God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.