Paul Gerhardt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.
-- Paul Gerhardt

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Through waves and clouds and storms His power will clear your way; Wait for his time; the darkest night Shall end in brightest day.
-- Paul Gerhardt

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Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't.
-- Paul Gerhardt

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All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.
-- Paul Gerhardt

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Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.
-- Paul Gerhardt

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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
No one man is superior to the game.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

Paul Gerhardt famous quotes

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