Teacheth Thee To Profit Quotes & Sayings

A man may read the figure on the dial, but he cannot tell how the day goes, unless the sun shines upon the dial: we may read the Bible over, but we can not learn the purpose, till the Spirit of God shines into our hearts. O implore this blessed Spirit! It is God's prerogative-royal to teach: "I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit." Is. 48. 17. Ministers may tell us our lesson, God only can teach us; we have lost both our hearing and eye-sight, therefore are very unfit to learn. Ever since Eve listened to the serpent, we have been deaf; and since she looked on the tree of knowledge we have been blind; but when God comes to teach, he removes these impediments. — Thomas Watson

Where ever you are accepted, stay there. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he is trying to say a little more. And I think this gives. If a singer tries to find out what's happening in life, it gives him a better insight on telling the story of the song he is trying to sing. — Sam Cooke

i could love dearly and yet not dearly enough to fear or suffer their loss. — Rick Barrett

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. — Augusten Burroughs

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally. — Ambrose Bierce

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe. — Le Corbusier