Quickened Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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