Lords Quotes

• Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Grace
  • Supernatural

• They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wisdom
  • Understand
  • Lords

• Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Son

• We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • House
  • Body
  • Public Opinion

• I feel humbled and really thankful the Lord's blessed us with a great bunch of guys. Any time you get into the playoffs, it's a huge deal. ... I don't know what to say about it, other than: I'm just thrilled. It's hard to get into the playoffs.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Great
  • Blessed

• Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Death
  • Lords
  • Melting

• Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Jesus

• The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Home

• Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

  

  Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Respect
  • Grief
  • Illness

• If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Virtue
  • Blood
  • Property

• Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Wars
  • Lords
  • Impoverish

• And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • Knowledge
  • Spirit
  • Command

• We may unintentionally hold up our own or another's well-intended behavior as the standard to meet, rather than the Lord's gentle, steady, and compassionate guidelines and commandments.

  

  Brent L. Top
  • Behavior
  • Lords
  • Guideliness

• Lords are lordliest in their wine.

  

  John Milton
  • Wine
  • Lords
  • Lordliest

• And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Nature
  • Masters
  • Lords