Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
Sophie Swetchine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Seems
Commands
Earth
Fidelity
Find
Closely
Look
Utterly
Looks
Command
Love
God
Forgotten
Shall
More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Sophie Swetchine
What I value most next to eternity is time.
Sophie Swetchine
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
Sophie Swetchine
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Sophie Swetchine
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Sophie Swetchine
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
Sophie Swetchine
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Sophie Swetchine
The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Sophie Swetchine
There is a transcendent power in example.
Sophie Swetchine
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
Sophie Swetchine
I love victory, but I love not triumph.
Sophie Swetchine
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie Swetchine
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Sophie Swetchine
Feeling loves a subdued light.
Sophie Swetchine
Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
Sophie Swetchine
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
Sophie Swetchine
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
Sophie Swetchine
Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
Sophie Swetchine
