"God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return."
Read quote
7 likes
Return quotes
Return
991 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Return
Browse quotes that often appear alongside return — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Return quotes (page 8 of 50)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity."
Read quote
7 likes
"Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered."
Read quote
7 likes
"Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much."
Read quote
7 likes
"Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past."
Read quote
7 likes
"To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority."
Read quote
7 likes
"Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return."
Read quote
7 likes
"It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket."
Read quote
7 likes
"You can have all of me, I silently told him, but I'm taking all of you in return."
Read quote
7 likes
"Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)"
Read quote
7 likes
"If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place."
Read quote
6 likes
"We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or post-conflict situation, we end up with intractable refugee camps that end up staying for decades."
Read quote
6 likes
"The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it."
Read quote
6 likes
"Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return."
Read quote
6 likes
"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."
Read quote
6 likes
"If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return."
Read quote
6 likes
"Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now."
Read quote
6 likes
"As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you."
Read quote
6 likes
"My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer."
Read quote
6 likes