Debtors Quotes

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Germany will always do the minimum to preserve the euro. Doing the minimum, though, will perpetuate the situation where the debtor countries in Europe have to pay tremendous premiums to refinance their debt. The result will be a Europe in which Germany is seen as an imperial power that will not be loved and admired by the rest of Europe - but hated and resisted, because it will perceived as an oppressive power.

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

Some troubles,
like a protested note of a solvent debtor,
bear interest.

O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.

I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

Our country has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.