Top 1200 Holier Than Thou Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

What shall I give Thee, Master? Thou who didst die for me! How can I give less than give of my best, When Thou hast given all to me! What shall I give Thee, Master? Thou who didst die for me! How can I give less than all of my best, I must give all to Thee!

Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine.

Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, Thou fount of life, thou Light of men, From the best bliss that earth imparts We turn unfilled to Thee again. We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead, And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. O Jesus, ever with us stay, Make all our moments calm and bright; Chase the dark night of sin away, Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!

If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.

Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too; Confesses rather what he means to do.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel.

Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!