Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew. Richard Chenevix Trench More Quotes by Richard Chenevix Trench More Quotes From Richard Chenevix Trench For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love. Richard Chenevix Trench armyblessinglove Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness. Richard Chenevix Trench prayermenheaven None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. Richard Chenevix Trench longingsoulheart We live not in our moments or our years: Richard Chenevix Trench sweetlifeyears Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face. Richard Chenevix Trench sinfacesmay The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. Richard Chenevix Trench germssinpride Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth. Richard Chenevix Trench earthlove-islove Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. Richard Chenevix Trench speechwould-bemen We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. Richard Chenevix Trench jupiterastrologystars Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. Richard Chenevix Trench amberdesignlanguage We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee? Richard Chenevix Trench strongprayerjoy There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it. Richard Chenevix Trench lessonsmistakemight If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed! Richard Chenevix Trench angelprayerlong Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. Richard Chenevix Trench languagedressesinspirational Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. Richard Chenevix Trench lightningcommunicationgenius Oh seize the instant time; you never will Richard Chenevix Trench millswaterpast The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction? Richard Chenevix Trench languagecountryfacts The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. Richard Chenevix Trench lightpast As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things. Richard Chenevix Trench shadowsubstance Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave. Richard Chenevix Trench failurefailingbrave
