Top 1200 Attacking Us Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you.

Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

The Holy Spirit, in the variety of his gifts, unites us and enables us to contribute to the building up of the Church in holiness. In this great work, each of us has a part to play; each of us, as a "living stone", is needed for the growth and the beauty of God's holy temple. Let us ask the Lord to help us to take an ever more active part in the Church's life and mission, guided by the Holy Spirit and with Jesus as our cornerstone.

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

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.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.

God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Basically, I'm going to take what you did, the bare-bones structure of what you were trying to do, how you were attacking the song, and attack it in pretty much the same way, just with more intensity to show you that you could've come harder. Like, I've been in situations where I've had to tell a cat how to rhyme his rhyme.

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

We're lucky to have such great fans that have stood by us, let us be us and try new things.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

We live surrounded by people who sound like us, vote like us, spend like us. We get only the news we want to. And then scream into the social media echo chamber that is designed to serve us up information we already like.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us, they want us to know that they are here, and they do their best to give us signs all the time...

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.