O Quotes
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“Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they all obey his hests."
"It is so," said all but Gazic. And Gazic rose up in a pause of their gladness.
"Many strange things," he said, "have entered our village, coming from over there. And it may be that human folk are best, and the ways of the fields we know.”
Source: The King of Elfland's Daughter
“Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.”
“Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)
“Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in His essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true, He manifested the glory of God to us, but He added nought to God.”
“Our Lord Jesus Christ made the merciful shepherding of His sheep the proof of love for Himself (cf. Jn. 21:15-17). He denounces as 'wicked' the servant who refused to pardon the debt of his fellow servant and who did not share in even the smallest way, the immense kindness that was bestowed on himself; that he should suffer the fate which he dealt is plainly shown to be right (cf. Mt. 18:32-33).”
“Our Lord Jesus Christ willed to be born into a home. He could have chosen another means than that of coming to earth to save us. That is the way He chose. He willed to have a mother and He willed that mother to have a spouse, St. Joseph. He willed to be born into that home. He willed to live in that home for thirty years out of the thirty-three which He spent here below. What could be the meaning of our Lord's staying such a long time in a family? It is not because He needed it. He is the one who gave all of the qualities to the home of Mary and Joseph. He was God; He had nothing to receive from them. But He willed to remain in that home precisely in order to show the importance of the family, because it is from the family that children are born and that is where they prepare for the mission which they are going to have to carry out in the world; just as Jesus willed to prepare Himself for His mission in the midst of His family. What a great lesson!”
“Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist expresses it, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. This commission was as extensive as possible, and laid them under obligation to disperse themselves into every country of the habitable globe, and preach to all the inhabitants, without exception, or limitation. They accordingly went forth in obedience to the command, and the power of God evidently wrought with them.”
Source: An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,
“Our Lord Jesus did not live by the sword, yet God sent Him to save the world by bearing the weight of sin on our behalf. That is why a Christian warrior must always be prepared to lay down his life on behalf of another.”
Source: Saplings of Sherwood
“Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing.”
Source: Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
“Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly.”
“Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.”
“Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the field concerned, and all pointing attention to his power to deal in the spiritual field with human souls as these mortal counterparts deal in their temporal pursuits.”
“Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.”
“Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.”
“Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.”
“Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.”
Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call
“Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.”
“Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.”
“Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.”
“Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.”
“Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.”
“Our Lord shares himself by sharing with us everything he has heard from the Father, so that his joy, his happiness, might be ours. Now we can love him in a new kind of way. This is not simply the love of a lowly creature for an all-powerful Creator, or of a servant for his master. This is the love of a friend for a friend. This love is called supernatural charity. This is possible only because God has shared his supernatural life with the soul. This is the highest of virtues. This is what endures, when all else has passed away.”
Source: True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness
“Our Lord shouts and screams;
his tears fall from heaven and spring the streams”
“Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.”
Source: The Marquis' Secret
“Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.”
“Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.”
“Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.”
“Our Lord was born into a family. The family is God's plan for the world–His divine plan, conceived in the very beginning, to be a way of beauty and spreading His word. The special place of prayer at home, the family oratory (oratory means “house of prayer”) is a powerhouse of grace by which our family may be nourished spiritually and thus be able to transform the world through prayer, proclamation of the gospel, and charity. That sounds grand, but it is really very simple and humble, like the Holy Family itself.”
Source: The Little Oratory: A Beginner's Guide to Praying in the Home
“Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.”
Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart
“Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was a passing from sunshine into shadow, from the effulgent glory of heaven to the mists of worldly passions and human unbelief; it was the beginning of His rapid descent into the valley of humiliation.”
Source: Jesus the Christ
“Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character; exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.”
Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics, Delivered in New York, Jan. 16 to March 20, 1871, on the
“Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.”
Source: My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E
“Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.”
“Our loss put six feet under ground
Is measured by the magnolia's root;
Our gain's the intellectual sound
Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.”
“Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.”
“Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns -- or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun.”
“Our love can survive anything.”
“Our love can't be measured. It just is.”
“Our love cannot be measured, it just is.”
“Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.”
“Our love defies logic and reason, a cosmic connection that words cannot fully capture.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us - which is really just love for ourselves.”
“Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.”
“Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.”
“Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.”
Source: Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment
“Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.”