Top 1200 Holier Than Thou Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon!

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ's look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, 'Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me' (Psalm 119:132).

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!

My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished.