Loadstone Quotes & Sayings

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die. — Billy Graham

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. — Samuel Smiles

Even as the needle that directs the hour,
(Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
From what is earth, and point alone to Thee. — Francis Quarles

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. — Albert Einstein

I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice. — Gene Kelly

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things? — Matthew Quick

Reflecting on this, Albert LaChance recognized an opportunity - what if the work he and so many others found so fruitful in the 12-Step recovery programs could be expanded to an ecological, a global, or even a cosmic level? — Albert J. LaChance

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. — John Dryden

The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. — Seishiro Itagaki

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me. — Ayn Rand

Loadstone Rock Book the Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow — Charles Dickens

For Christians who desire to write, the call to read broadly is an absolute necessity, for writing is, in many ways, the process of digesting and synthesizing not only the thoughts and experiences of a writer's own life, but the writer's intellectual wanderings as well. — Gene C. Fant Jr.

I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years. — Paul W. S. Anderson

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody — Tupac Shakur

He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To ADMOVE (ADMO'VE) v.a.[admoveo, Lat.]To bring one thing to another. If, unto the powder of loadstone or iron, we admove the northpole of the loadstone, the powders, or small divisions, will erect and conform themselves thereto.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. ii. — Samuel Johnson

XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock — Charles Dickens

Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book — Charles Dickens

Knowledge is knowing a basket, wisdom is not putting water into it. — Ziglar Zig

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising. — William Monahan

My grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone. When any vessels came near it, they were instantly deprived of their ironwork: the nails flew to the mountain, and the unhappy crew perished amidst the disjointed planks. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. — Herman Melville

Whatever good works ye send on before [death] ... ye shall find with God. — Elijah Muhammad

the eye should not see until the heart has conceived — Malcolm C. Duncan

Whereas the ancients held that garlick hindred the attraction of the Loadstone, he contradicts this by experience; but I cannot think the ancient Sages would write so confidently of that which they had no experience; of, being a thing so obvious and easie to try; therefore I suppose they had a stronger kind of garlick, then is with us — Alexander Ross

Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book the Third - — Charles Dickens

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. — Henry Miller