Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Past

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • True
  • Soul

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • For Her

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Better

• At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Energy

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Soul
  • Promise
  • Advertisement

• Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul
  • Stop

• It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • House
  • Sunshine

• Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Kids
  • Soul
  • Air

• Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Mother
  • Soul
  • Kind

• I was born in Allied-controlled Pola. At the end of World War II, the victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties and borders with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. The Paris Treaty was signed on February 10, 1947. I was born a few days later.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

  

  William P. Young
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Energy

• What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Soul
  • Sunshine
  • Lord Jesus Christ