"Almighty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hard-hearted way, to be true to nature. I have been informed that this portrait is passing from hand to hand, and sowing unpleasant impressions, inspiring artists with feelings of envy, of dark hatred towards their brethren, with malicious thirst for persecution and oppression. May the Almighty preserve you from such passions! ...
— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... he observed: "Well, I like a medium in music, although I may be wrong in that." All was well, we suppose, provided the best gifts of Catholic masters in their art were in good faith proffered to Almighty God. In the words herein of St. Gregory the Great: Mihi placet ut, sive in Romana, sive in Galliarum, sive in qualibet ecclesia, aliquid invenisti quod plus omnipotenti Deo possit placere, sollicite eligas.[62] ...
— Cardinal Newman as a Musician • Edward Bellasis
... not be well," he replied, "to tamper with the works of the Almighty. Pray rather for this miracle, that your father's heart be turned toward you and toward ...
— The Truce of God • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... happy, if Martha is out of sight [she wrote] and Aunt is always planning some new pleasure for her. And, John, Uncle is never tired of praising your pluck and humanity. He says he wishes the Almighty had given him such an opportunity; he thinks he would have done just as you have done. It was a little strange that Uncle met a great Manchester banker the other day, and while they were talking of the trouble, now so nearly over, this man said, "Gentlemen, a great many of us have ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... Amen to that. It's pity I didn't think the time I sent for yourself to send the little lad of a messenger looking for a priest to overtake him. It might be in the end the Almighty is the ...
— The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays • William B. Yeats
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