Surmounts Quotes & Sayings

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him. — Herbert McCabe

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness. — Thomas Jefferson

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I'm sober and I'm lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment — Drake

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man. — Francois Rabelais

There are some people so lonely, they think God is lonely too- — Carl Sandburg

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius. — P.D. James

Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught. — Peter Capaldi

If many worlds would altogether try,
By all their sins the wrath of God to get,
This sin of yours surmounts them all as far
As doth the sun another little star. — Aemilia Lanyer

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. — Albert Schweitzer

It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and that is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness. . . . We are not saved by the love we exercise, but by the love we trust. — Timothy Keller

It was even said that some birds spring to life in the tension of accidental chords being struck in the ether, a confluence of arbitrary sound waves from unrelated sources: a piano, a truck, a breaking bottle---a bird. — Carl Watson

What God originates, God orchestrates. — Andy Stanley

As long as we stick together , we can smash the sadness — Mikey Way

It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces. — Amor Towles

I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching. — Mark Nepo

Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway. — Mike Carey

The message behind the words
is the voice of the heart. — Rumi

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden

This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.' — Janet Morris