On My Knees Quotes

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!

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth

Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries.

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

A woman is as young as her knees.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

If negativity starts to cloud your thoughts, get on your hands & knees and pull out the weeds.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.