Lilias Trotter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
-- Lilias Trotter

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The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.
-- Lilias Trotter

#Names #Ideas #Long
Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory.
-- Lilias Trotter

#Christ #Glory #Dare
Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.
-- Lilias Trotter

#Jesus #Soul #Vision
When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.
-- Lilias Trotter

#Work Out #Delay #Littles

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.
I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an â€˜okayâ€™?
Whoâ€™s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just donâ€™t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale â€” and ultimately it is a gamble â€” demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yogaâ€¦ Itâ€™s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

Lilias Trotter famous quotes

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