quotes about Messengers
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An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
-- A.M. Jenkins -
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Obey me as I obey God and His Messenger; if I disobey them, then you should disobey me.
-- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -
A good message will always find a messenger.
-- Amelia BarrSource : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.136, Litres
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Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.
-- Anat R. Admati -
I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
-- Anita Hill -
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
-- Anthony Holden -
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Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
-- Aubrey Thomas de VereSource : Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1842). “The Waldenses, Or the Fall of Rora: a Lyrical Sketch. With Other Poems”, p.295
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Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.
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Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
-- Charles William Eliot -
My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.
-- Claire KeeganSource : "Foster" by Claire Keegan, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2010.
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When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.
-- Conor Maynard -
In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.
-- Dania RamirezSource : Source: collider.com
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The revelations of the Father and the Son are conveyed through the third member of the Godhead, even the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the witness of and messenger for the Father and the Son.
-- David A. Bednar -
Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament . . . I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!
-- Elizabeth Ann Seton -
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
-- Erica Jong -
Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.
-- Forrest Church -
The messenger is not as important as the message.
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That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.
-- George Mason -
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Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.
-- Greta Van SusterenSource : "Simpson, families battle over courtroom camera". www.cnn.com. August 23, 1996.
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Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
-- Guru Nanak -
Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
-- Henri Nouwen -
When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.
-- Howard TaylerSource : "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, 2003-2006.
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Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.
-- Jacqueline WinspearSource : Jacqueline Winspear (2011). “Maisie Dobbs Bundle #2, An Incomplete Revenge and Among the Mad: Books 5 and 6”, p.31, Henry Holt and Company
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Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.
-- James Bethea -
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
-- Jay GriffithsSource : "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.
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I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
-- Jeff Koons -
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Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
-- Joseph Barber LightfootSource : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
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I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse.
-- Julia GoldingSource : Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.364, Marshall Cavendish
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Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
-- Magic Johnson -
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
The Law of the Few,... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
-- Mary Oliver -
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I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.
-- Matt SkibaSource : "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.
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What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
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Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.
-- Neville GoddardSource : Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
-- Paracelsus -
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The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.
-- Pat Mitchell -
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.
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In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.
-- Robert MossSource : Robert Moss (2009). “The Three "Only" Things (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277
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Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
-- Sasha Pieterse -
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I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.
-- Stephen Baldwin -
The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.
-- Terry TaylorSource : Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books
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I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allâh’s Messenger (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) kiss you, I would never have kissed you.
-- Umar -
The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.
-- Djibril Diop Mambety -
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Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.
-- Karen Salmansohn -
I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.
-- Steven Sebring -
I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.
-- Steven Sebring -
I'm only the messenger.
-- Aden YoungSource : Source: www.gq.com
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Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.
-- Ameen RihaniSource : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.379, Syracuse University Press
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I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.
-- Rodney "Gipsy" Smith -
Tears are the messengers of true love.
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The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
-- Roy Ayers -
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The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.
-- Haddon W. Robinson