Anxious Quote by Richard Chenevix Trench

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are;…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury…

— Richard Chenevix Trench