“God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 242 of 709
“All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.”
“I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.”
“On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.”
“I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.”
“When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.”
“If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.”
“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.”
“I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.”
“For me, every hour is grace.”
“Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.”
“Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?”
“The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.”
“The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.”
“The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?”
“How lucious lies the pea within the pod.”
“I can say with sincerity that I like cats... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.”
“This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!”
“How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.”
“When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.”