Top 1200 Holier Than Thou Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to a certain extent, but not as feared by Christians. Freethought has never said pull down your churches, burn up your creeds, crucify your savior or reject your god. No one ever knew a Freethinker to try to make laws to control people. All their efforts have been the other way, trying to tear down laws already made which control by "Thou shalt" and "thou shalt not."

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.

Thou shalt never wash my feet.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if Thou were dead. Let us more and more come to know Thee as a living Lord who hath promised to them that believe: "Because I live, ye shall live also." Help us to remember that we are praying to the Conqueror of Death, that we may no longer be afraid nor dismayed by the world's problems and threats, since Thou hast overcome the world. In Thy strong name, we ask for Thy living presence and Thy victorious power. Amen.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we have the words of Jesus to the thief of the cross, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise.' Christ can say, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise,' and mean it. To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality. But at the same time, Christ, the same Christ who gives the promise just as definitely, that when I have accepted Christ as my savior, he lives in me.

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?

All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.

Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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Thou mayest rule over sin.

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Love, which teacheth me that thou and I am one

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?