Ashes Quote by Rebecca St. James

I am ashes where once I was fire...

— Lord Byron

“There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow in…

— Anne Brontë

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

— Bible

You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on…

— George Whitefield

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.…

— Charles Dickens

“By God’s grace you will find yourself (as I did) weeping over your sin, celebrating your forgiveness, and exalting in God’s grace.”

— Scotty Smith

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what…

— William Shakespeare

“Do not cry to me. I can only cry with you. I will not die for you. I am still too young in the…

— N.D. Wilson

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again…

— John Woolman

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

— J. I. Packer