G Quotes
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“Give us grace to listen well.”
Source: The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition
“Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.’ ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.”
Source: Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 2D Series
“Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.”
“Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.”
“Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?”
“Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.”
“Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.”
“Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!”
“Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.”
Source: Collected Stories
“Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.”
“Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.”
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.”
“Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.”
“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job”
“Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise...”
“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”
“Give us this day our daily mask.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.”
“Give us this day to make a difference.”
“Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”
“Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.”
“Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.”
“Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.”
“Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.”
“Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!”
“Give value to those who see value in you.”
“Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.”
“Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.”
“Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.”
“Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”
“Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.”
“Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”
Source: Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell
“Give what you believe in and not what you have.”
“Give what you can, take what you need.”
“Give what You command and command what You will.”
“GIVE WHAT YOU DON’T NEED AND TAKE ONLY WHAT YOU WANT”
“Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.”
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
“Give when you have nothing to give. That is when it will bring you the most joy.”
“Give wind and tide a chance to change.”
“Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.”
“Give without expectation; receive without demand—kindness completes the circle.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.”
“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Give Words to your Thoughts.”
“Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.”
“Give you whatany you want, Chessiebomb. Anything.”
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