One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.
O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before you start writing. Without a sense of direction, you can get lost in the middle.
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
Religion is a Snare and a Racket.
. . . there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.
Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.
It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.
It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.
Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter
The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.
What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
