May Quotes
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.
Time is old. Life is short. Only this moment is guaranteed to you. Fight hard to do the things you dream of. You may not have another chance.
Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.
God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!
Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
It may sound cliché, but it really was an honor to be nominated. As an actor, nothing is guaranteed.
The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.
There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.
Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.
