Thy Quotes

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.