Words matter. These are the best Thy Quotes from famous people such as George Canning, Maimonides, Robert Frost, Francis Quarles, Hugh Miller, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’, and thou shalt progress.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
I always say, ‘Honor thy mother and go to war for my brother.’
Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Unlike a celebrity, there’s nothing I won’t try and nothing I won’t talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, ‘Change thy hair, change thyself.’
Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
Sure, some tracks are not as good as others, but we’ve written some really strong, classic stuff, like ‘The Number of the Beast,’ ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name,’ and ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, – as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.’
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
We made one film called Thy Neighbor’s Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Most humbly, my beloved Saviour, I bow myself before thee. I am a worm and no man. I alone deserve to suffer. I alone shrink from suffering. I was with thee in thy days of joy, singing ‘Hosanna,’ and I wished to make thee King. Now, in thine hour of suffering, I am far from thee.
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
There’s not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow’r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
The Mormon belief system unites curiously American pairs of opposites. A relish for the dog-eat-dog practices of the marketplace goes hand in hand with the stern obligation to ‘help thy neighbor.’
Essentially, pride is a ‘my will’ rather than ‘thy will’ approach to life.
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?