Catherine Hall famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
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Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.
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The cheerful loser is the winner.
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True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
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I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.
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Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!
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Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.
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Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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