Acceptable Quotations | Page 5

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

No doubt but ye are the People - your throne is above the King's. / Whoso speaks in your presence must say acceptable things.

We know that they obtained these bodies in a fraudulent way and off the scale of acceptable practice.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.