Jonathan Swift Quotes

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Jonathan Swift

• God
• Death
• Justice
• Heaven

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Work
  • God
  • Strong

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never

• If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • God
  • Greatest

• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Man
  • Sun

• Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • God
  • Adventure

• The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Death
  • Woman
  • Gentleman

• If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • God
  • You
  • Study

• My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • Father
  • Death
  • Night

• We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Government

• The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Enemy

• To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessed

• When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

  

  John Doerr
  • Identity

• Only those who have been truly afraid can understand the crippling hold it can have on you.

  

  Anita Nair
  • Understand
  • Afraid
  • Hold

• I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • God
  • Death
  • Justice