Quotes About Rank

Her sweat is a rank reminder, the only one, that she exists, that she is separate from the things that surround her.

Sin, in short, is that vast moral disease which affects the whole human race, of every rank and class and name and nation and people and tongue, a disease from which there never was but one born of woman that was free. Need I say that One was Christ Jesus the Lord?

Mark well what I say. Do not overlook this, though all the rest be forgotten. I do not say that the statesman must throw up his office, and the rich man forsake his property. Let no one fancy that I mean this. But I say, if a man would be saved, whatever be his rank in life, he must be prepared for tribulation. He must make up his mind to choose much which seems evil, and to give up and refuse much which seems good.

Young men, God does not show favoritism or respects the honors bestowed by men. He rewards no man's heritage, or wealth, or rank, or position. He does not see with man's eyes. The poorest saint that ever died in a ghetto is nobler in His sight than the richest sinner that ever died in a palace.

We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go-- Rank after Rank, with even feet-- And uniforms of Snow. -Emily Dickinson

Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit or rank. A man's neighbor is everyone who needs help. ~J.C. Geikie

The special operations culture is unique in its willingness to ignore rank when it comes to providing brutally honest assessments of an action.

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general

No effort could convince her that women could engage in such activities without loosing their feminity. Games seemed especially unfit for women. ..She was often torn between her belief that Americans were above European style dissipation, and her fear it was only a matter of time before they would follow in Europe path....Both of them hostile to royalty and privileges of rank, flaunted their Americaness and refused to curry favor with people of rank.

Rank is a great beautifier.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

but the immediate prospect of being elevated above his Anglo-Saxon peers.

The persecution would cease instantly, for the commands of a Vega were made to be obeyed by all men of whatever rank.

Ah! It's fortunate for you that those who bred you brought you into the world to rank and riches; what would ever have become of you, so wasteful as you are. Look at him throwing away his crescent because it touched the bed. There he goes, now, look, he's spilling his milk, wait till I tie a napkin round you, for you could never do it for yourself, never in my life have I seen anyone so helpless and so clumsy as you.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

With reference to the heart's blindness and it's cure the Prophet said: "For everything there is a polish that taketh away rust, and the polish of the heart is remembrance of God." And when asked who would rank highest in God's esteem on the Day of Resurrection he answered: "The men and the women who invoke God much in remembrance.