Cloaks Quote by Thomas Brooks Download Open image “How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!” — Thomas Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cloaks Found Gowns Riches Soul Wealth
“You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
“Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
“She went alone to the vast room where the second-hand clothes were kept. Later, she thought it the happiest hour of her life. There… — Martine Bailey Copy Share Image
“The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths. But those… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness,… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set]. — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
