Leah > Leah's Quotes

“Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.”
― George Müller

“It was a strangely selfish love, methinks, that could thus seek the ruin of its object.”
― Georgie Sheldon, Lost - A Pearle: A novel

“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.”
― William James

“What is the meaning of all this?" in the same breath inquired the father and son.
Cap slapped her hands on her hips, tossed her head back, and whirling around, replied :
"It means, your worships' excellencies, that–you–can't come it! it's no go! this chicken won't fight. It means that the fat's in the fire, and the cat's out of the bag! It means confusion! distraction! perdition! and a tearing off of our wigs! It means the game's up, the play's over, villainy is about to be hanged and virtue about to be rewarded, and the curtain is going to drop and the principal performer–that's I–is going to be called out amid the applause of the audience!" Then, suddenly changing her mocking tone to one of great severity, she said:
"It means that you have been outwitted by a girl! It means that your purposed victim has fled, and is by this time in safety! It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!”
― E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand

“Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.”
― Hannah More

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Truly, the world hath as many eyes to look upon a man withal as there are spots on a toad; so, with what pair of eyes thou regardest me lieth entirely with thine own self.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“In haste I smote, but grieve I sore at Leisure.”
― Howard Pyle, [The Adventures of Robin Hood (Classic Starts)] [By: Pyle, Howard] [March, 2005]

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Who art thou fellow, that liest there killing all the green grass with salt water?”
― Howard Pyle, [The Adventures of Robin Hood (Classic Starts)] [By: Pyle, Howard] [March, 2005]

“Where there is great evil, there is even greater good.”
― Chuck Black, Sir Rowan and the Camerian Conquest

“Falling is often the only way to bring us to our knees.”
― Finnian T. Jones

“Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“This annoying dilemma: A watched pot never boils, but an unwatched pot boils over.”
― Jerodius Annale

“Uneasy dies the head that bears a frown.”
― Jerodius Annale

“Let us no longer cast the precious pearl of time before swine to gain a moment of diversion, but spend it for God to gain in eternity.”
― Jerodius Annale

“God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.”
― David Livingstone

“Noncontentus Virositus (N.V.)

When we're imprisoned by N.V.,
We're never happy in the land of now here.
We're always longing to be elsewhere,
And that's how now here becomes nowhere.”
― Finnian T. Jones

“The goals you set for tomorrow shape who you are today.”
― Finnian T. Jones

“There once was a big man named self
Who thought he deserved the top shelf.
But the more self pursued, the smaller he grew,
And now he's a sad little elf.”
― Finnian T. Jones

“Patience is a virtue,
Catch it if you can!
Seldom in a woman,
Never in a Man!”
― Mrs. O.F. Walton, The Spiral Staircase

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.”
― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.”
― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!”
― Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“...if God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.”
― Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all. And there is a wicked reluctance to do that. I want Him--but I want to have my own way, too. I want to walk humbly and softly before Him and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded. To whom shall I yield? To God? Or to myself?”
― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward [with Biographical Introduction]

“You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.”
― Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sickrooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.”
― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward