Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. . . . We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Man alone is made in the image of God.
Faith Alone is what really matters.
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange. . . There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.
I like to race, not to do laps alone.
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.
Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone.
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
It is love alone that counts.