“My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful.”
“The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.”
“Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;”
“Emotion triggers action, good or otherwise”
“John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt.”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
