Quotes about for (16 Quotes)


    He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. 'For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep.' They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

    A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature. The picture was the envy of the artists who saw it, the despair of the collectors who yearned to buy it. But Whistler refused steadfastly to sell it. 'For,' he said, 'whenever I feel that my hand has lost its cunning, whenever I doubt my ability, I look at the little picture of the spray of roses, and say to myself, Whistler, you painted that. Your hand drew it. Your imagination conceived the colors. Your skill put the roses on the canvas. Then, said he, 'I know that what I have done, I can do again'

    When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?




    Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pocket are to be the words 'For my sake was the world created,' and in his left 'I am dust and ashes.'

    In fact, the belief in the spherical earth had currency more than a century before Columbus' famous voyage. 'For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form, for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country. And men may well prove by experience and subtle exercise of wit that if a man should find routes by ship that would go to search the world, men might go by ship all about the world and around and beneath it....'


    One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

    Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here 'for a wise and glorious purpose,' and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.





    Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 'at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel.' 'Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.'




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