When he said to his father and his people What are these images to whose worship you cleave They said We found our fathers worshipping them.
Quotes about cleave (16 Quotes)
To cleave that sea the Aegean in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
And let not those deem, who are niggardly in giving away that which Allah has granted them out of His grace, that it is good for them nay, it is worse for them they shall have that whereof they were niggardly made to cleave to their necks on the resurrection day and Allah's is the heritage of the heavens and the earth and Allah is aware of what you do.
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts Hast not thy share On winged feet, Lo it rushes thee to meet ...
The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to remind us constantly that death, the rupture of discontinuous individualities to which we cleave in terror, stands there before us more real than life itself.
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought of fame those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their restless pursuits such men are under the doom of heaven.
In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that make her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.
Surely We give life and cause to die, and to Us is the eventual coming The day on which the earth shall cleave asunder under them, they will make haste that is a gathering together easy to Us.
Certainly you have made an abominable assertion The heavens may almost be rent thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and the mountains fall down in pieces, That they ascribe a son to the Beneficent God.
In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.
To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her.
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith She reels not at the storm of warring words She brightens at the clash of 'Yes' and 'No' She sees the best that glimmers through the worst She feels the sun is hid for the night She spies the summer through the winter bud She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls She hears the lark within the songless egg She finds the fountain where they wailed 'Mirage'
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.
Then let man look to his food, That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance, Then We cleave the earth, cleaving (it) asunder, Then We cause to grow therein the grain, And grapes and clover, And the olive and the palm, And thick gardens, And fruits and herbage A provision for you and for your cattle.