For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.
So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.
Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
