Wish Quotes - Page 18

Magic is our birthright...and should be available to all who wish to utilize it as a tool of personal transformation.

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return - 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

You should be a person who can establish the Heavenly Kingdom rather than just the one who can go there. Those who can go to heaven are those who wish to be dependent on God, but those capable of building the Kingdom are those who can let God depend on them.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.