Quotessence
Home / Books / Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

Book by Frances Ridley Havergal · 4 quotes · Bats, Break, Break Through

Filter quotes by topic

Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ... Quotes

“Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.”

“Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.”