Mighty Fortress Quotes & Sayings

I built a fortress safe and strong to last a thousand years. A mighty stronghold that crumbles with a kiss — Rick Yancey

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way. — James Bovard

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet. — Fidel Castro

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. — Martin Luther

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. — John Arbuthnot

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right? His father laughed but didn't answer. — Robert Liparulo

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has. — Stanislaw Ulam

XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment. — Stephen Crane

[ ... ] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound. — Jean Vanier

Very well," it said. "I am a mighty fortress, sheathed in stone."
King Vikram thought for a moment.
"I am a catapult," he said. "Stone-breaking, fortress-sundering."
"I am a saboteur," countered the vetala. "Oath-breaker, weapon disabler."
"I am ill luck," said King Vikram. "Upending plots, dismaying plans."
The vetala was favorably impressed.
"I am fortune," it said. "I crown luck with destiny."
"I am free will," said King Vikram. "I challenge destiny with choice."
"I am divine will," said the vetala, "to which choice and destiny are one and the same."
"I am myself," said King Vikram. "The only thing that is mine to give, by choice or by destiny. — G. Willow Wilson

I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on. — Russell Simmons

There is no army, no fortress, no giant that can stand against our God. No one. I have seen with my own eyes. I have walked through the bottom of the sea. On dry ground. I have watched as he humiliated Egypt and brought the mighty Pharaoh low. — Connilyn Cossette

I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people. — Tina Majorino

Luxembourg was at first a castle, then a fortified city, and eventually a mighty fortress. It didn't become an open city until 1867 when the fortress was partially dismantled. A series of inner and outer walls, or line of palisades, had defended the approaches to the city. Today many of these walls, ruins of towers, and stockades still stand. Within the rock foundation of the city, a network of underground tunnels had been built. — John Dolibois

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it. — Benjamin Franklin

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it. — Dontrelle Willis