Burning Quote by Henry Miller

Calvary reveals the seriousness of our Sin and the vastness of God's grace

— Anonymous

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.

— Amy Carmichael

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of…

— Samuel Johnson

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering…

— Anonymous

“Despite an icy northeast wind huffing across the bay I sneak out after dark, after my mother falls asleep clutching her leather Bible, and…

— Bob Thurber

The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“We are the centuries... We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your Caesars and…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and…

— Dante Alighieri

“Strange is the riddle of this life of ours! Who knows the meaning of the heavenly powers? Great Caesar's wounds bleed yearly in the…

— Omar Khayyám

“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow…

— Thomas Hardy

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death,…

— Cate Tiernan

“On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same…

— Carol Berg