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Behold, I make all things new. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Behold God beholding you...and smiling. -- Anthony de Mello
Behold this day. It is yours to make. -- Black Elk
Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year. -- John Logan
Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself". -- Deepak Chopra
Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it. -- Byron Katie
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! -- Augustus
The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity. -- Christina Rossetti
Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. -- Homer
Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor. -- William Bradford
Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee! -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. -- Benjamin Franklin
Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse. -- LiliÊ»uokalani
Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes! -- Ogden Nash
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. -- James Bryant Conant
Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. -- George Meredith
Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me. -- Dante Alighieri
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! -- John the Baptist
Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work. -- Frank Herbert
Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke! -- Rick Riordan
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. -- Alexander Pope
Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain! -- Anthony Marais
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! -- Alexander Pope
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness. -- Sun Ra
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. -- Walt Whitman
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations. -- Jim Rohn
Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven. -- Isaiah
Behold, the number five is at hand. Grab it and shake and harness the power of networking. -- Jarod Kintz
Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross! -- Charles Spurgeon
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. -- John Bevere
Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine. -- Hannah Hurnard
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight. -- Robert Southwell
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still -- Tycho Brahe
Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more. -- Boyd K. Packer
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all. -- Sivananda
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection. -- John Milton
Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love. -- Emily Dickinson
Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore. -- Emma Ghent Curtis
At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress. -- Elaine A. Cannon
Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the illuminating Light of Christ Consciousness, present in every soul, every flower, every atom. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time! -- Rumi
Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake. -- Nathalia Crane
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay! -- Henry Abbey
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray. -- Kabir
Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away. -- Mira Grant
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling. -- Black Elk
Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold! -- William Blake
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. -- Alexander Smith
Be not weary in well-doing. â?¦ Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind. -- Thomas S. Monson
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. -- Charles Spurgeon
I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who watch for your souls (Hebrews 13:17; Acts 20:28) -- Joseph Alleine
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body. -- Raymond Holliwell
Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is. -- William T. Vollmann
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! -- Sitting Bull
Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child. -- Edna Jaques
What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created. -- Thomas a Kempis
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love. -- Theodore Roethke
Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' -- Thornton Wilder
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. -- Jesus Christ
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. -- William Jennings Bryan
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds! -- R. Murray Schafer
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven! -- John Keats
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified? -- Richard Watson Gilder
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new. -- Ronald Knox
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something? -- Gregory Maguire
Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery? -- Akhenaton
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. -- Virginia Woolf
Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious. -- Michel de Montaigne
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning," it says, "Behold your God. -- J.D. Greear
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God". -- J.D. Greear
I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. -- Jim Butcher
Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him. -- Mother Teresa
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good. -- John Ruskin
One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel." -- Neal A. Maxwell
And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? -- Moses
Behold divinity divine enough to abandon divinity. Behold majesty secure enough to proceed un-majestically. Behold strength strong enough to become weakness, goodness good enough to be unmindful of its reputation. Behold love plenteous enough to give and take not again. -- Paul Ramsey
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it. -- William Laud
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother.' -- Robert Bellarmine
Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.' -- Clarence Jordan
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks. -- O. Henry
Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. -- Anonymous
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested. -- Jean Ingelow
Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland -- Judith McNaught
EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand. -- Richard Hovey
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course. -- Henry David Thoreau
Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life. -- June Jordan
To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel! -- John Owen
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them down into captivity. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God--he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile. -- Dwight L. Moody
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar -- Mark Twain
There is beautiful you are.No, said Marged, between a sigh and a sob.Yes, said Owen.No, said Marged, not so certain.Behold, Owen said, from Solomonthou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes.Dove's eyes are small. Marged said.Yours are so big they are my whole world, said Owen. -- Richard Llewellyn
The gods behold all righteous actions. -- Ovid
A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold. -- Willie Stargell
Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause. -- Bruce Feiler
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. -- Richard Bach
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. -- Marshall McLuhan
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. -- Henry David Thoreau
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. -- Black Elk
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. -- Khalil Gibran

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