O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“O God! In your presence, everything becomes a fresh blossom, and light grows through the dark! There, I hear the music of life!”
“O God let your face shine on us!”
“O God, Mama, I’ve made such a mull of it! What am I to do?”
Source: Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle
“O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.”
“O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.”
“O God of our fathers, and Lord of mercy, who has made all things with your word, and ordained man through your wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which you have made, give me wisdom that sits by your throne so that I might understand what is your will and be saved. For I am your servant. Amen.”
“O God open our eyes to see the wonders of your holy word.”
“O God, they do not know me, and I do not know them; show me the right way to decide; show them the proper way to reach me; O God, give me wisdom, courage, and fairness to accept or reject; O God, let me disappear from their sight if they are just making me a fool and enjoying that. O God, keep me away from hurting others' feelings if they are fair, honest, and want honestly to be a part of my life; O God, help me not to make mistakes again; keep away from them if they are bogus in my way; if they are sincere, give and show them the right way; Amen”
“O God, Thou who guidest the Saints and leadest them on Thy eternal way, who art everywhere with them and leavest them never, lead me on this way and direct my feet on the way of salvation and bring me to the place which I long for, that I may have intercourse with Thy Saints and serve Thee with them in holiness and praise Thee eternally.”
Source: Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides; Volume 2: Hilaria. Bound with: Eusebii Pamphilii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Lib X, Ed A Schwegler.
“O God uplift the falling.”
“O' God, You see openly through, what hearts and minds, desire secretly, make good, and settle all complaints. You know the ins and outs of whatever is out and kept undisclosed and the vital completion of all the desires. O' God, You know I neither give any hope or expression nor reply to others nor use such words that may take others, in a wrong context, and do hope for nothing. It can cause the worst pain to them. O' God, give me the courage to speak clearly, and openly with my dignity of the Self.”
“O' God, You see openly through what hearts and minds desire secretly, make good, and settle all complaints. You know the ins and outs of whatever is out and kept undisclosed and the vital completion of all the desires. O' God, You know I neither give any hope or expression nor reply to others nor use such words that may take others, in a wrong context, and do hope for nothing. It can cause the worst pain to them. Oh, God, give me the courage to speak clearly, and openly with my dignity of the Self.”
“O' God, You see openly through, what hearts and minds, desire secretly, make good, and settle all complaints. You know the ins and outs of whatever is out and kept undisclosed and the vital completion of all the desires. O' God, You know I neither give any hope or expression or reply to others nor use such words that may take others, in a wrong context, and do hope for nothing. It can cause the hardest pain to them. O' God, give me the courage to speak clearly, and openly with my dignity of the Self.”
“O God, You see openly through what hearts and minds desire secretly, make good, and settle all complaints; you know the ins and outs of whatever is out and kept undisclosed and the vital completion of all the desires. O God, You know I neither give up any hope or expression nor reply to others nor use such words that may take others in a wrong context and hope for nothing that can cause the worst pain to them.
Oh, God, give me the courage to speak clearly, and openly with my dignity of the Self.”
“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”
“O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.”
“O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."”
Source: The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…
“O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.”
“O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness”
Source: Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts
“O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.”
“O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.”
“O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.”
“O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.”
“O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!”
Source: Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner
“O God, how lovely still is life!”
“O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.”
“O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.”
“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.”
“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.”
“O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!”
“O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.”
“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.”
“O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.”
Source: Poems and new poems
“O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!”
“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
“O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice”
“O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.”
Source: A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life
“O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.”
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
“O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?”
“O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.”
“O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.”
“O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.”
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”
“O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.”
“O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice. I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You.”
“O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.”
“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.”