Zitat des Tages über Deine / Thy:
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.