Quickened Quotes
32 quotes by 29 authors
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
— Frederick Douglass
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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
— John Updike
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The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will…
— Sterling W Sill
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He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is…
— Gautama Buddha
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which…
— Walter Pater
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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was…
— Edvard Munch
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To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a…
— John Bunyan
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No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
— Samuel Johnson
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Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be…
— Klas Pontus Arnoldson
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If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would be more perfect,…
— Ellen G. White
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Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the…
— Pliny the Elder
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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All there is responds to a word of praise. God responds. We respond. Everything responds. The whole world sparkles, quivers, comes alive. Things vibrate and…
— James Dillet Freeman
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The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God;…
— Martin Luther
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Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was separated from God…
— Gregory Palamas
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How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection…
— Samuel Johnson
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If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable…
— Kim Harrison
Who Wrote These Quickened Quotes
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