#lord

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#brothers #cardinals #dear #elected #great

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going

I love you so much, my fingers hurt! ↗

— Heather Dixon

#love

To define is to limit. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lord-henry-wotton #wilde #wild

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ↗

— Josh Billings

#forgiven #laughed #lord #man #sins

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. ↗

— Josh Billings

#gout #i #know #lord #medicine

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it. ↗

— Larry Bird

#good #good lord #i #i can #like

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. ↗

— George Byron

#existence #had #i #known #lord

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#fancy #judge #lord #spell #taste

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. ↗

— Lloyd C. Douglas

#damages #fear #ghost #harbors #him