"Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds……" — John Greenleaf Whittier
"Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!"
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139 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly…
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate…
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise,…
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We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and…
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And…
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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay,…
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His…
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over…
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare…
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt…
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
— Saint Basil
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They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
— William Shakespeare
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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
— Ovid
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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with…
— John Dryden
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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the…
— Saadi
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
— Plotinus
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain…
— Gautama Buddha
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In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His…
— Arthur W. Pink
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds…
— Samuel Johnson
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it…
— Rene Descartes
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with…
— Wallace Stevens
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