On My Knees Quotes

On My Knees Quote of the day

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.

We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

This is what it's like to get old: you still feel 19, except your knees hurt...

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!