American literature Quote by Jonathan Edwards Download Open image ““The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.”” — Jonathan Edwards ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare American literature Death Propriety Puritanism Sermon-quotes
“How many of the yellow arrows pointing the way had been obscured by a narrowly focused consciousness and passed by unseen.” — Terence Callery Copy Share Image
“The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Most of my childhood was spent clinging to the feathers of a dulled arrow blindly fired across a starless night.” — Brian K. Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Arrows are like snow or sorrow or secrets--they seem small and light, but their weight adds up.” — Tyrell Johnson Copy Share Image
“Bonaventure Arrow could travel the world through the abundant good graces of his silence.” — Rita Leganski Copy Share Image
“Let them come with their night-vision glasses and their heavy, branch-breaking bodies. Right into the range of my arrows.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our… — Aesop Copy Share Image
“Death is the most formidable adventure of life for it forays into the unknown.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.” — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Let the main thing that we prize in God’s house be, not the outward ornaments of it, or a high seat in it, but… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there is that… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Edwards sought to impose a new test of qualification. He required, namely, that the candidate for full communion should give evidence of being converted,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf is the… — Erri DeLuca Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image