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“After a long introspection, prayer and consultation,i have decided to call an end to my active duty on the SAFA national panel of match officials after having first made my rookie appearance in the 1996/7 season.”
Jerome Damon (born 1972) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: International Cape Town-born referee Jerome Damon calls time on his career", (June 17 2014)
“Like the coach always says, every prayer is important. When you are sitting on the bench, you can see the match a bit differently because you have the side view and obviously you can hear the instructions from the coaches. So, for me it has always been important to stay focused, believing that i'd come in and deliver.”
Thapelo Morena (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These five things have always worked for me (in no specific order): persistence, patience, perseverance, practice, and prayer”
Ken Nwadiogbu (born 1994) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On becoming an artist 21 December 2018
“There are a few things I do every day. I pray, I exercise, I try to read. And when I was talking with the search committee, I started with a prayer of discernment.”
Shawna Cooper Whitehead wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing”
Martin Luther King Jr. (disputed) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by George Sweeting (senior pastor at Moody Church and former President of the Moody Bible Institute), in Talking it over (Sep. 1, 1979), p. 88. and The Basics of the Christian Life (Aug 1, 1983), p. 83. No ear…
“The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would suffice.”
Meister Eckhart (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our evangelical churches are too much regarded as places for preaching, and too little thought as intended for the religious elevation of the mind by prayer and meditation.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prayer has a right to the word “ineffable.” It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,—of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.”
Sophie Swetchine (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prayer,” says St. Jerome, “is a groan.” Ah! our groans are prayers as well. The very cry of distress is an involuntary appeal to that invisible Power whose aid the soul invokes.”
Sophie Swetchine (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Up with the banner of your new Lord, Jehovah Jesus! Raise it in firm decision, with quiet earnestness and with humble prayer; keep it with unflinching fortitude, and be ready to die rather than dishonor it.”
William Mackergo Taylor (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: A section of my people will not cease fighting for the Truth and will prevail till the Day of Resurrection. He said: Jesus son of Mary would then descend and their (Muslims') commander would invite him to come and lead them in prayer, but he would say: "No, some amongst you are commanders over some (amongst you). This is the honour from Allah for this Ummah.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid’s curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!”
George Peele (1556–1596) said by 1596 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O thou, the drink of gods and angels! wine.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gods are condemned to live the dream of the imperishable.”
Giannina Braschi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She hath too much divinity for me: You gods, teach her some more humanity.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man, when he is in health and order of soul and body, is Mount Olympus, and in him, so long as he confesses that he is nothing in himself, are sensibly apparent the powers and majesties, beauties and beatitudes of all Gods and Goddesses.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time softly there Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods.”
William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The gods despise enforcèd offerings. When the heart brings its dearest and its last Then only will they hear—if then, if then!”
William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!”
Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692) first seen 1613 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act i., Sc. 3. "It would talk,— Lord! how it talked!", Beaumont and Fletcher, Scornful Lady (c. 1613; printed 1616), Act v., Sc. 1.
“Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves — all plot and no characters, or made-up characters — Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.”
Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Fun-House Mirror" (1972), pp. 107-108
“To be in politics is to be misjudged. But the moment I flourish the axe, murder the hog, look at the brains of the hog sloshing around in the bucket, I anoint my face with the blood, the offal, and I give out a mighty cry to the Gods upon Olympus.”
Steve Hilton (born 1969) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said after Hilton threatens to 'murder the hog', as quoted in "Hilton threatens to 'murder the hog'", The Guardian, October 22, 2011
“Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But “Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!”
Henry Carey (1687–1743) said by 1743 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No wonder round those urns of mingled clays That Tuscan potters fashion’d in old days, And colour’d like the torrid earth ablaze,We find the little gods and loves portray’d, Through ancient forests wandering undismay’d, And fluting hymns of pleasure unafraid.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the face of real danger Elak forgot the gods and drew his rapier. Prayers, he had found, would not halt a dagger's blow or a strangler's hands.”
Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Elak got up and recovered his rapier, loudly thanking Ishtar for his deliverance. "For," he thought, "a little politeness costs nothing, and even though my own skill and not Ishtar's hand saved me, one never knows." Too, there were other dangers to face, and if the gods are capricious, the goddesses are certainly even more so.”
Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not Indian nor a Hindu. But I know one thing. Secularism should not mean that demeaning Hindu Gods is justified and telling the truth about Muhammad is not.”
Geert Wilders (born 1963) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Geert Wilders, Jun 11, 2022
“A trembling and some laughter, / a squirt of pee, a spit, / whispers of the heart, / a smell, / the drift to sleep, / pursuit by Gods, / exposure of the bum, / mathematics ...”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even the Gods cannot strive against necessity.”
Pittacus of Mytilene (651–571 BC) said by 571 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All history, common sense and natural law declare that the White race cannot share its Gods or religions with others.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung. Each questioned each to know Whence came the Heavens above, and whence the Earth below.”
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.”
Jim Starlin (born 1949) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Death of the New Gods storyline, as quoted in "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods" at Comicon.com (August 2007)
“All I can say is this: either every single member of that army had been promised a blow job of the Gods as soon as they got their queen back, or the Greeks invented brainwashing. (On the Greeks and the Trojan War, 31 May 2004)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Greek mythology tells us that the Gods invented woman as a punishment after man got a hold of some stolen goods. Obviously, this was just the mythological explanation given by the primitive early men to explain the real origin of women, which was this: THEY CAME DOWN IN SPACESHIPS. Yes, all women are space aliens who have come from a far-off galaxy to enslave mankind. (Ask Yahtzee)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have knelt in the mighty temples, But the dumb gods make no sign; They cannot speak to my spirit, As thy soul speaks to mine.”
Fred Weatherly (1848–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.”
Fay Weldon (1931–2023) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This much I know: Fay Weldon", The Observer Magazine (30 August 2009).
“However long Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians struggle to find multiple meanings in this text, the dominant seems to be this: Abraham’s unquestioning willingness to heed gods command to sacrifice the thing he loved most is what qualified him to become the father of what are called still the Abrahamic faiths.”
Susan Neiman (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I realized in and instant that I desired false gods because Jesus wouldn't jump through my hoops, and I realized that, like Tony, my faith was about image and ego, not about practicing spirituality.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is irreverent to the Gods to give you this demonstration, but for your sakes it shall be done.”
Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What appears to us to be an accurate definition of justice does not also appear to be so to the Gods. For we, looking to that which is most brief, direct our attention to things present, and to this momentary life, and the manner in which it subsists. But the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul, and all its former lives.”
Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor, (1821) quoted by Annie Besant in Karma, (1895)
“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sexual freedom, which has mixed the human races and muddled human ethics, is absolutely forbidden by gods. So as cultivators, you absolutely should not do that sort of thing. You may have a wife or a husband. This is the normal way of life for human beings. But you are committing a sin if you have sexual activity with someone who isn’t your husband or your wife.”
Li Hongzhi (born 1951) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 30 May 1998 in Frankfurt, Germany
“The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.”
Dion Fortune (1890–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error. And so people said he had no respect for the gods of the clan. His enemies said that his good fortune had gone to his head.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though men determine, the gods too dispose.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men change their gods, and when they have changed them often enough they cease to fear their power.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source