Matthew Quotes

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in.

Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they are not.

For many are called but few are chosen.

The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

It was founded upon a rock.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

Man shall not live by bread alone

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father which is in heaven.

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?

Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Or what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone?

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt for which we strive and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

The very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.

When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

I was an hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

Pearl of great price.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-

Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.

Thus I steer my bark and sail On even keel with gentle gale.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.

A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them.

When thou doest alms let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

Unto every one that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.