Thy Quotes

For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

I’m proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey… executing the plan!

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’, and thou shalt progress.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Westboro would quote this passage from the book of Leviticus that, for them, shows that the definition of ‘love thy neighbor’ is to rebuke your neighbor when you see him sinning. And if you don’t do that, then you hate your neighbor in your heart.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

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.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sure, some tracks are not as good as others, but we’ve written some really strong, classic stuff, like ‘The Number of the Beast,’ ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name,’ and ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Unlike a celebrity, there’s nothing I won’t try and nothing I won’t talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, ‘Change thy hair, change thyself.’

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour – let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

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.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

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.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, for there are plenty of others.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

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.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

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.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

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.