Dryness Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No… — Teresa of Avila
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.… — Henry David Thoreau
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come… — Tycho Brahe
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some… — Immanuel Kant
He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives… — Watchman Nee
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. — Ann Zwinger
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar,… — Philip Neri
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy… — Henri Nouwen
[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor… — Vincent de Paul
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows… — Albertus Magnus
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and… — Henry David Thoreau
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In… — Avicenna
My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and… — Vincent Gallo
Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a… — Bill Bryson
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water… — Benjamin Franklin

Who Wrote These Dryness Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Dryness Quotes as follows: