Top 1200 Let Us Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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

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

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

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.

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

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

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

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

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...

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

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

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

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

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.

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

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

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.

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.

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake 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.

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

The E.U. Referendum clearly divided us, and little has been done by those that lead us to bring us back together.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.