1.
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
Charles Stanley
We must bear in mind that the quickest route from our issues to their answers is the space between our legs and the ground.
2.
Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.
Cyrus the Great
Even if the heavens were more diminutive than my legs, I would not bend.
3.
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
John Bunyan
The most significant facts I have acquired come from supplication. I never fully understand something until it is deeply entrenched in my soul through prayer.
4.
If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.
Mamie Till
Prostrate oneself in homage when a white person passes.
5.
God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.
Willie Nelson
God has bestowed you with plenty, so bow your head and express your gratitude. Don't neglect those in need or else God will severely reprimand you. I would be delighted to do that for him, but I am not omnipresent.
6.
I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.
Emiliano Zapata
I would rather perish standing than subsist cowering.
7.
I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.
Martin Luther
I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour in earnest prayer.
8.
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
Che Guevara
9.
The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee
Big K.R.I.T.
10.
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
Vin Scully
12.
Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.
Nora Roberts
13.
We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.
Rigoberta Menchu
14.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Aeschylus
15.
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
Benedict Cumberbatch
16.
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
Pythagoras
17.
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
Bear Bryant
18.
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
Adam Savage
19.
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
Edward Abbey
20.
Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.
Laurie Beth Jones
21.
Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
22.
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
C. S. Lewis
23.
Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.
Robert Collier
24.
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
Maria Callas
25.
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?
Ethel Barrymore
26.
It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.
Fulton J. Sheen
27.
We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.
J. R. R. Tolkien
28.
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
29.
Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.
Gordon B. Hinckley
30.
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.
Jim Elliot
31.
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
Kyra Sedgwick
32.
The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.
Mark Rippetoe
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If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
Austin O'Malley
34.
If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.
Fred Beck
35.
This is what it's like to get old: you still feel 19, except your knees hurt...
J. D. Daniels
36.
You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
Gordon B. Hinckley
38.
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
Toni Morrison
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
William Cowper
40.
If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
Joel Salatin
41.
I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family
Val Venis
42.
I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'
Aimee Mullins
44.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot
45.
Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.
Sonny Liston
46.
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
Dwight L. Moody
47.
Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.
Rick Riordan
48.
I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.
Dave Gahan
49.
A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
E. Stanley Jones
50.
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Cathy Freeman