Quotes for All
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. Etty Hillesum
I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they’d slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives … Read more
What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs. E. V. Lucas
There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. Frank Zappa
There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. F.B. Meyer
Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear. F.B. Meyer
We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress… but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on us, more crying to God to arise and scatter his enemies and make himself known. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. Dwight L. Moody
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a prayer and then climbed the … Read more
That’s all you get, said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his torso. He tossed it away, and walked through the liter of bodies to where Namatjira was kneeling on the deck. Please! My lord primarch! Please, I beg you! Namtjira pleaded, his hands making … Read more