My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death. . . . Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.
Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.
Vermont is a country unto itself.
Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.
Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
I am not my own light unto myself.
Let all children come unto me.
Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . . Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.