Abyss Quote by Benedict Joseph Labre

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end,…

— James Joyce

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My…

— David Brainerd

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

— Charles Spurgeon

The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be…

— Edgar Lee Masters

“It started to snow—light flakes that drifted down from the heavens like small feathers released from angel pillows.”

— Debbie Macomber

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of…

— Joë Bousquet

I felt the breath of God go cold on my skin.

— Leah Price

I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior…

— Patrick Swayze

If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything…

— Anonymous

“ ‘You are made of snow,’ Morozko the frost-demon warned her, when she met him in the forest. ‘You cannot love and be immortal.’ As…

— Katherine Arden

I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

— Saint Patrick