Homer Quotes
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
Quotes to Explore
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’...
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In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.
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It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
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If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
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Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.
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It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
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I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
