I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold. — William Booth Copy Share Image
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and… — James Thomson Copy Share Image
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their… — Cassius Dio Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It's because people are so perishable. That's the thing. Because for everyone you meet there is a last moment, there will be… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
