Baptists Quote by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him…

— Bible

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

— James Joyce

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the…

— James Joyce

He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed…

— Peter Chrysologus

“He was looking forward to his visit not only for the pleasure of the shrewd dealing which far transcended mere gross profit, but with…

— William Faulkner

“Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day,…

— Herman Melville

“He felt twilight. Not there seemed to be some kind of wet light traveling over his legs and stomach with a deeply attractive smell.…

— Toni Morrison

“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His…

— William Shakespeare

“Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without,…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow. (Luke 22:45)

— Bible

“He lay in darkness, like a sacrifice; he could hear the teeth of his leprosy devouring his flesh. There was a smell of contempt…

— Stephen R. Donaldson