Trembles Quotes
60 quotes by 52 authors
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the…
— Roland Barthes
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles…
— Duke of Wellington
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The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs…
— Samuel Chadwick
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When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little....
— Hannah More
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My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
— Thomas Jefferson
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One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own…
— Herman Melville
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads…
— Max Stirner
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There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only…
— Peter L. Berger
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The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that…
— Rudolf Otto
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One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort…
— Hjalmar Söderberg
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
— William Butler Yeats
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Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
— Samuel Chadwick
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Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the…
— Samuel Chadwick
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Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.
— Jean Rhys
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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
— Rumi
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There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a…
— Heinrich Heine
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The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's…
— Gilbert Adair
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