O Quotes
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“O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.”
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
“O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.”
“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.”
“O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.”
“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.”
“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
“O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.”
Source: The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse
“O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.”
“O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
“O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.”
Source: Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer: With Original Letters, and Meditations and Prayers, Selected from Her Journal
“O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!”
“O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.”
“O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are. - Wayne Dyer Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice" is yearning to be heard.”
“O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.”
“O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.”
“O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.”
“O Lord, Thou knowest that which is best for us; let this or that be done, as Thou shalt please. Give what Thou wilt, how much Thou wilt, and when Thou wilt. Deal with me as thou thinkest best. Place me where Thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as Thou wilt. Behold, I am Thy servant, prepared for all things: I desire not to live unto myself, but unto Thee; and oh, that I could do it worthily and perfectly!”
“O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.”
“O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.”
“O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.”
“O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.”
“O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.”
“O Lord...
Once I wanted You so much
I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
And now
I am not even worthy to be let in”
“O Lord...Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, but fully alive inside my heart...remove ‘me’...let there be only you”
“O lorde é quase rei.
O rei é quase Deus.
A terra é uma lordship.
Os ingleses chamam Deus de mylord.”
Source: The Man Who Laughs
“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.”
Source: The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed
“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”
“O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again.”
Source: Look Homeward, Angel
“O louco não é o homem que perdeu o juízo, mas sim o homem cujo juízo suplantou tudo o resto. O louco é aquele que vê causas em tudo, e essas causas remontam a outras causas, e a outras ainda mais distantes, e cada uma dessas causas suscita uma dúvida ou ramifica-se imparavelmente. O Diabo continua a rir-se. O outro caminho que podemos seguir é aquele que silencia e que aquieta os demónios. Não foi por acaso que Bosch ou Bruegel ou Goya pintaram o Inferno como uma amálgama de corpos lancinados e pungidos, de bocas abertas, gritando, implorando e rugindo. São as vozes dentro da nossa cabeça, aquelas que não se calam quando tentamos abarcar o infinito. Não fomos feitos para saber tanto, nem tão pouco. Fomos feitos para aprender a silenciar essas vozes que nos enlouquecem. No fundo, nem precisamos de Deus. Precisamos de alívio. Deus, Alívio. Pouco importa o que lhe chamam.”
Source: O Luto de Elias Gro
“O Love, divine Love, why do You lay siege to me?
In a frenzy of love for me, You find no rest.
From five sides You move against me,
Hearing, sight, taste, touch, and scent.
To come out is to be caught; I cannot hide from You.
If I come out through sight I see Love
Painted in every form and color,
Inviting me to come to You, to dwell in You.
If I leave through the door of hearing,
What I hear points only to You, Lord;
I cannot escape Love through this gage.
If I come out through taste, every flavor proclaims:
"Love, divine Love, hungering Love!
You have caught me on Your hook, for you want to reign in me."
If I leave through the door of scent
I sense You in all creation; You have caught me
And wounded me through that fragrance.
If I come out through the sense of touch
I find Your lineaments in every creature;
To try to flee from You is madness.
Love, I flee from You, afraid to give You my heart:
I see that You make me one with You,
I cease to be me and can no longer find myself.
If I see evil in a man or defect or temptation,
You fuse me with him, and make me suffer;
O Love without limits, who is it You love?
It is You, O Crucified Christ,
Who take possession of me,
Drawing me out of the sea to the shore;
There I suffer to see Your wounded heart.
Why did You endure the pain?
So that I might be healed.”
Source: The God-Madness
“O love, how did you get here?
--from "Nick and the Candlestick", written 29 October 1962”
Source: Ariel
“O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.”
Source: Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael
“O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee : I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.”
“O Love! Whore of a devil
When would you find me?”
Source: Bait
“O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.”
“O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.”
“O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!”
“O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting”
“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“O love, how did you get here?”
“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”
“O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”
“O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.”
“O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.”