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Quotes About Kneeling

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Acho que compreendo por que a ladainha exige instintivamente o cair de joelhos. A mudança de posição é o simbolo de uma mudança na voz, no que a voz vai articular, no próprio articulado. Quando chego ao ponto de tocar essa mudança, as coisas que até um segundo antes me pareciam arbitrárias enchem-se de sentido profundo, simplificam-se extraordinariamente e ao mesmo tempo se aprofundam.
~ Julio Cortazar
In the stands, I've always heard the people yelling. When I'm in the community, when I get approached, I can honestly say I've not had anybody say stop kneeling in public. It's all been supportive.
~ Eric Reid
For one, when has Jay-Z ever taken a knee to come out and tell us that we're past kneeling? Yes, he's done a lot of great work, a lot of great social justice work. But for you to get paid to go into an NFL press conference and say that we're past kneeling? Again, asinine.
~ Eric Reid
A burning church full of dead men in black gowns. Another one, in red, lying dead outside. And you, kneeling next to a woman who's been tied up with duct tape. I admit that looks fairly suspicious at first glance, I said.
~ Mike Carey
the heart is a vessel not large enough to sustain love. Kneeling is the proper position for discovering love again.
~ Karen Burton Mains
In a journey through the wastes, I found a god kneeling as it pushed its hands into the sand again and again, each time lifting them up to watch the lifeless grains stream down. Dismounting from my weary horse, I walked to stand before this apparition and its dusty hands and watched for a time the cycles of their motion when at last up it looked, eyes beseeching. 'Where,' asked this god, 'are my children?
~ Steven Erikson
Or maybe his reclusiveness was a decisive marketing strategy-if you disappear, people are more interested in your work. You become a legend while you're still alive. Crouching behind a stonewall, or the post under a house...people are kneeling down to find you.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
En realidad, la batalla más significativa por librar es la que se hace de rodillas. Aunque no estés involucrado de manera directa en el trabajo de evangelismo, abrirás oportunidades para los que sí lo hacen cuando estés más sobre tus rodillas. Cuando batallas en oración ante Dios, Él abre oportunidades para el testimonio donde antes no fue posible.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Dicen nuestros mayores que el sol ha de alumbrar antes a los que están de pie que a los que se arrodillan bajo ellos.
~ Chinua Achebe
Ahora bien, debes saber que cuando la Biblia menciona que alguien se arrodilló, significa que ese tiempo de oración era en serio.
~ Tony Evans
The ageing process,' said Bryant, pausing at the top of the stairs. 'It's killing me. Hang on a minute, I have to get my breath back. You know the things I hate most about getting old? Kneeling down and wondering if I'll ever get back up again. Never leaving the house without having to pee first. Old people tell me about their illnesses and assume I care. Your lungs turn into deflated balloons, your feet hurt all the time. Look at me—I look like a bald bat.
~ Christopher Fowler
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
~ landor walter savage iii
Position two. Submit." He watched with pleasure as, remaining on her knees, she leaned forward, lowering her forehead until it touched the mat. She lifted her ass up, keeping her legs spread wide. Finally, she extended her arms along the mat, placing one hand over the other in a properly submissive pose. Cameron looked at the mirror on the wall behind her. It gave him an excellent view of her cunt and asshole.
~ Claire Thompson
The second position," Dominique continued, "is called submit. You will kneel forward, face down, arms stretched out on the ground in front of you, ass high in the air, knees spread wide.
~ Claire Thompson
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
~ Oscar Wilde
A lot of people get upset by any protest - people taking a knee during the national anthem or raising a fist. As if we're being disrespectful. Or rude to the national anthem or to our soldiers, you know what I'm saying? It's deeper than that.
~ DeSean Jackson
kneel for five or ten minutes and welcome the presence of Jesus. You may not think it will make any difference to kneel when you pray, but try it anyway. Then consider the difference it may have made. As you pray, give the day up to God, renewing your invitation to him to be with you each moment.
~ Dallas Willard
I can understand if you think that I'm disrespecting the flag by kneeling, but it is because of my utmost respect for the flag and the promise it represents that I have chosen to demonstrate in this way.
~ Megan Rapinoe
Dans les églises, à la clarté des cierges, un homme boit du vin devant des femmes à genoux.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.
~ David Foster Wallace
It never ceases to amaze me how hard kneeling is - the joints complaining and my rational mind telling me that I'm too old and that God can hear my prayers from the comfort of my chair. Someday my knees may not let me up. Or I'll catch my death from the draft along the floor. The excuses are valid. Yet there is something amazing about kneeling, the humility and greatness of need that well up within me as I find my place there. It is my way to pray.
~ Unknown
Any of the kneeling girls who fell over was taken away to be gassed,
~ Clive James
My mind wandered as I went through the motions of Catholic mass, kneeling, praying, and also with you–ing.
~ Jess Lourey