I Quotes
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“It is a great truth that you will rise again. It is a sweeter truth that you will "always be with the Lord." Whatever else you draw comfort from, neglect not this deep, clear, and over-flowing well of delight. There are other sources of good cheer in connection with the glory to be revealed, for heaven is a many-sided joy, but still none can excel the glory of communion with Jesus Christ, wherefore comfort one another in the first place and most constantly, with these words, "So we will always be with the Lord.”
“It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.”
Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES
“It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.”
“It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.”
“It is a great victory that comes without blood.”
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked”
Source: The Drifter
“It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.”
Source: Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)
“It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.”
Source: Friends and fiddlers
“It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.”
“It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.”
Source: Essential works of Erasmus
“It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.”
“It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.”
“It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name”
Source: The Kingdom of God, part 1
“It is a gross misunderstanding to believe that anything that feels natural is righteous.”
Source: A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption
“It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.”
“It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.”
“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.”
“It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.”
“It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.”
“It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.”
Source: Ye Are My Friends
“It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.”
“It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)
“It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.”
“It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.”
Source: Essays and Selected Verse: With an Introd
“It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.”
“It is a hard fact that cruel actions differ from kind ones, and hence that we can learn, as in fact we all do, to distinguish them fairly well in practice, and to use the words ‘cruel’ and ‘kind’ with fairly clear descriptive meanings; but is it an equally hard fact that actions which are cruel in such a descriptive sense are to be condemned?”
Source: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
“It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.”
Source: .) (1850).
“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)
“It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.”
Source: My Brother's Killer
“It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, and some kinds of speculation lead a man deep into dishonesty before he thinks what he is about. Poverty will not make a man worthless—he may be of worth a great deal more when he is poor than he was when he was rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value—a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation, like a bit of broken basin, or dirty rag.”
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
“It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.”
“It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.”
“It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.”
“It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.”
Source: Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines
“It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.”
Source: Essays and Letters
“It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.”
Source: Healology
“It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.”
“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”
Source: Healology
“It is a heartbreaking exercise to contemplate the eventual loss of family, friends, and pets.”
“it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.”
Source: Islands in the Stream: A Novel
“It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.”
“It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.”