“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
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
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
“You can lament and carry on all you want to, but bad stuff happens to good people and there's not much any… — Robin McGraw Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year; — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Lament For J Among the small graves a soft shaft of sunlight gently rains On a memory; etches, as a glittering finger,… — Alan James Roll Copy Share Image
“For the complete biblical narrative to take root in our community, lament has to become a part of our story. Emmanuel Katongole… — Soong-Chan Rah Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth;… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
People are storytelling creatures. We like stories that go somewhere, and therefore we like trends - because trends are things that either… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if… — William Whately 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
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of… — Roy Harper 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
“The real problem is that this devaluing of lament often betrays our failure to admit that our suffering is real and painful.… — Kelly M. Kapic Copy Share Image
“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
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
