Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. Henry David Thoreau
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. Jack Kerouac
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair. Charles Spurgeon
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! William Wordsworth
Pitt complained that we lay inactive, while the French pushed on their conquests. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body. Novalis