“Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world – with the longing that… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Oh, how I've envied the lives of those who could spend life sitting down. A place to sit, a place to sit!… — Wolfgang Hilbig Copy Share Image
I'd like to make a sincere lament for the victims of Sichuan earthquake. I will pray for them with all of my… — Ok Taec-yeon Copy Share Image
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lament challenges the church to acknowledge real suffering and plead with God for his intervention. The” — Soong-Chan Rah Copy Share Image
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Thery're both iron, isn't that funny?" "Funny haha or funny strange?" James handed them back to me "Funny 'occult'" "Ah. Funny strange"… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment.… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly, and bitterly wept as we bore him along. For we all loved… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and… — Fred E. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“The one so loved that a single lyre raised more lament than lamenting women ever did; and that from the lament a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Lament is the loss of true kingship, whereas doxology is the faithful embrace of the true king and the rejection of all… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Biblical lament is an honest, vulnerable expression of pain, a crying out to God in faith as we are suffering.” — Cindee Snider Re Copy Share Image
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
“Nothing feels better than listening to the lament of your own heart- so unanimous in its own little world.” — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal Copy Share Image
“(Later, I'l learn that's the structure of an elegy: lament, consolation; bad news, followed by good news.)” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Could I weep my soul Into one precious pearl Deep in the sea I'd let it lie Lost, where no waves curl.… — W.J. Turner Copy Share Image
“Lamenting keeps us engaged with God. When we lament, we invite God into our pain so that we can know his comfort,… — Vaneetha Rendall Risner Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image