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  • Our Lord is our Father. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord. -- Saint Peter
  • Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say -- Martin Luther
  • Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation. -- Oswald Chambers
  • It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief. -- St. Vincent
  • Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. -- Vance Havner
  • All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. -- Martin Luther
  • Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity. -- Therese of Lisieux
  • Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold. -- Vance Havner
  • Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service. -- Oswald Chambers
  • The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me. -- Mary Potter
  • Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones! -- Vincent de Paul
  • Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering! -- J. Vernon McGee
  • Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did. -- Vincent de Paul
  • The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. -- Richard Rolle
  • Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers. -- Julian of Norwich
  • Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence. -- George MacDonald
  • When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants. -- Mary Potter
  • He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant. -- Maria Goretti
  • Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them -- Peter of Alcantara
  • The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all. -- Teresa of Avila
  • There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us. -- Teresa of Avila
  • Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys! -- Vance Havner
  • Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well. -- Anthony Mary Claret
  • I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom. -- Oswald Chambers
  • The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. -- Martin Luther
  • Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance. -- Vincent de Paul
  • God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord. -- Vincent de Paul
  • The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren. -- Edwin Louis Cole
  • Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others. -- Desmond Tutu
  • Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession. -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working. -- Julian of Norwich
  • Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. -- Divine
  • Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation. -- J. Oswald Sanders
  • Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men". -- Oswald Chambers
  • Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come. -- Martin Luther
  • Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • Are you ready for the rapture of the churchAre you ready for HeavenOur Lord Jesus Christ now wants all Christians to get into a sense of urgency in our preparation for His second coming. -- Doris Ijeoma Basil
  • [I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed! -- Vincent de Paul
  • Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack. -- Kiersten White
  • Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies. -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn
  • It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill. -- David Chilton
  • Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament . . . I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul! -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so. -- Thomas S. Monson
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  • I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
  • I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
  • What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy? -- Solanus Casey
  • In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the virtues, Destroyer of vice, Liberator of souls, Guide to true happiness, she is called Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman. -- Pope Pius IX
  • With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls. -- Vincent de Paul
  • ... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently. -- Vincent de Paul
  • When I pressed Jesus to my heart, I said to Him: 'I will be a priest. I promise You!' ...Oh, what graces Our Lord gave me then! Yes, I believe my conversion at that time was sincere and perfect. -- Peter Julian Eymard
  • Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans. -- Charles Simeon
  • Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
  • Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
  • You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so. -- Vincent de Paul
  • I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels. -- Joan of Arc
  • So, do not dwell any longer on what you are, but consider Our Lord close by you and within you, ready to put His hand to the work as soon as you call upon Him for help, and you will see that all will go well. -- Vincent de Paul
  • [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment. -- Vincent de Paul
  • There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
  • Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
  • If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren. -- J. C. Ryle
  • The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. -- Billy Graham
  • We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ. -- Herschel Walker
  • May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! -- Saint Ignatius
  • Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. -- Jacques Lipchitz
  • For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. -- Saint Ignatius
  • We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil. -- Claus von Stauffenberg
  • All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord. -- Saint Ignatius
  • God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts. -- Saint Ignatius
  • Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God. -- Nick Vujicic
  • When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child. -- George Whitefield
  • What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. -- Saint Ignatius
  • Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears. -- Henri Nouwen
  • I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ. -- Jan Hus
  • The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. -- Ellen G. White
  • God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode. -- Bob Riley
  • Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. -- Saint Ignatius
  • This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance. -- Pope Francis
  • Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. -- Ignatius of Loyola
  • Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man. -- John Wycliffe
  • Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears. -- Saint Ignatius
  • Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. -- Saint Basil
  • I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice. -- Haniel Long
  • The Lord healed all our wounds. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The Lord God is our great helper. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I've been forgotten by our Good Lord. -- Jeanne Calment
  • The Almighty LORD is our strong deliver. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • March on, the Lord is our General. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • The blessings of the Lord is our greatest wealth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . . -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. -- Clement of Alexandria
  • We belong to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The Lord is in the details of our lives. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The Lord is our hope.The Lord is our help. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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