Books Quotes

There is no greater crime against humanity than usury.

~ Compton Gage

The harder you search the more troubled you become.

~ Compton Gage

You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.

~ Compton Gage

Justice is about harmony... revenge is about you making yourself feel better.

~ Compton Gage

Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.

~ Compton Gage

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

~ Compton Gage

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, exceeding deep, who can find it out?

~ Compton Gage

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, And the reason of things, And to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands-

~ Compton Gage

Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child's purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.

~ Compton Gage

Loneliness is your only companion.

~ Compton Gage

You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust.

~ Compton Gage

Many are they that rise up against you. Many there be which say of your soul, ‘’There is no help for you.’’ But the instruments of death is prepared for your cause.

~ Compton Gage

You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice.

~ Compton Gage

You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young.

~ Compton Gage

To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents.

~ Compton Gage

I saw under the sun the place of judgement, …that wickedness was there; And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. …I said in mine heart, 'Who shall judge the righteous and the wicked:' for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.

~ Compton Gage

It is right that one must come so far to see the world as it is meant to be.

~ Compton Gage

Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.

~ Compton Gage

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

~ Compton Gage

There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us.

~ Compton Gage

Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.

~ Compton Gage

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

~ Compton Gage

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

~ Compton Gage

The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.

~ Compton Gage

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

~ Compton Gage

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.

~ Compton Gage

Death does not wait for you to be ready.

~ Compton Gage

Death is not considerate, or fair.

~ Compton Gage

Today, death is your opponent.

~ Compton Gage

It is not enough to be a man.

~ Compton Gage

My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.

~ Compton Gage

What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.

~ Compton Gage

Though dead is promised to me, when will I slumber, deep? Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

~ Compton Gage

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

~ Compton Gage

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

~ Compton Gage

There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.

~ Patience Johnson

The real flight of this hawk is impending.Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.Though I have leaped over the seas,well,the entire sky is still remaining to fly.And make sure that ,i am gonna do it with all my heart and all my soul.#loveyoourlife #liveyourlife #hvFUN

~ Arunima Sinha

It’s when your plans look dead that God’s resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure

~ Patience Johnson

God is not interested in helping you finding out why you are in a mess, He is interested in fixing it.

~ Patience Johnson

God always sees me with no make-ups on because He knew how we started.

~ Patience Johnson