Moliere Quotes

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

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• I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Lord
  • Without

• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Lord

• The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Gift

• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Doing
  • Lord
  • Rings

• 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Lord

• Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Lord
  • Give

• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Speak
  • Lord

• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lord

• Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Lord
  • Theory
  • Correct

• Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Men
  • Father
  • Lord

• The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Work
  • Lord
  • Expression

• Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Time
  • Lord
  • Minutes

• The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Lord

• I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Good
  • May
  • Jesus

• Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Travel

• The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Heaven
  • Mistake
  • Lord

• It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Up
  • Children
  • Society

• The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

  

  Euripides
  • Vengeance
  • Steals
  • Wicked Man

• A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Moment
  • Affection

• We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Past
  • Parent
  • Offspring

• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Truth
  • American
  • Mainstream

• The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Perspective
  • Persons
  • Normal

• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

  

  Moliere
  • Lord
  • Terrible Thing
  • Wicked Man