L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.”
“Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.”
“Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.”
“Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.”
“Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.”
Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis
“Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.”
“Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.”
Source: Private Prayers
“Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.”
“Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.”
“Let us pray that Allah will guide us safely through such a time as this.”
“Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.”
“Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.”
Source: Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].
“Let us pray to Allah to unite us for human mercy, instead of dividing us all on what we believe. Ramadan Mubarak!”
“Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it. Families are the domestic church where Jesus grows in the love of a married couple, in the lives of their children.”
“Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!”
“Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.”
“Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.”
“Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.”
“Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.”
“Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.”
“Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.”
“Let us prepare for that blessed day when He will come again. Let us be as wise as those ancients who watched for His coming.”
“Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness”
“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.”
“Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!”
“Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions... Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.”
“Let us protect with love all that God has given us!”
“Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.”
“Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.”
Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President
“Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.”
“Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.”
“Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.”
“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its subjects are free from all obligations to it.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the sorts of techno-scientific advances that are taking shape today.”
“Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours so we won't sink, but will serve life which is stronger than death, and love which is stronger than hatred.”
“Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.”
Source: The Letters of Mozart and His Family
“Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.”
Source: Prayers, Verses, and Devotions
“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.”
“Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms God here: almighty, imparting manifold gifts, Him Whom the holy choir hymns, Who brings life to those in heaven and on earth, and is enthroned on high, coming from the Father, the divine force, self-commandeered; He is not a Child (for there is one worthy Child of the One who is best), nor is He outside the unseen Godhead, but of identical honor.”
“Let us question why we are losing so many teenage girls and young women to an ideology that encourages them to discard all things that represent womanhood and motherhood. Moms are often thrown out, along with the young women’s healthy breast tissue. Being a woman is a gift if not rejected.”
Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“Let us raise a new banner of Justice, and unite with determination against the evil which continues to demean all who are created in the image of God.”
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln