S Quotes
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“Surely revival delays because prayer decays.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.”
“Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”
Source: Cold comfort farm
“Surely she knows the effect she has on me, he thought. He was close enough to smell her orange blossom perfume. Oh! What a glorious scent. He brought himself back into focus, leaned in, and with the large serving tongs carefully lifted the lobster from the tray.
Dear Lord, guide my hand. Do not let me make a fool of myself this day. Do not let me flip the spoon into her lap, please, please, guide my hand.
Not a crumb of lobster's stuffing escaped as he laid it gently upon the exquisite maiolica plate decorated with scenes of pastoral life. Relief.
"Thank you," she said again. Her soft voice was a chorus of angels. She touched his arm in thanks and a thrill ran through him. He wanted nothing more than to lean down and brush her white neck with his lips, but instead he departed before she could see the heat of embarrassment rising to his cheeks.”
Source: The Chef's Secret
“Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?'
His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?'
She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with?”
Source: Rose-Coloured Love
“Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Surely," Siddhartha laughed, "surely I have travelled for my amusement. For what else? I have gotten to know people and places, I have received kindness and trust, I have found friendship. Look, my dear, if I had been Kamaswami, I would have travelled back, being annoyed and in a hurry, as soon as I had seen that my purchase had been rendered impossible, and time and money would indeed have been lost. But like this, I've had a few good days, I've learned, had joy, I've neither harmed myself nor others by annoyance and hastiness. And if I'll ever return there again, perhaps to buy an upcoming harvest, or for whatever purpose it might be, friendly people will receive me in a friendly and happy manner, and I will praise myself for not showing any hurry and displeasure at that time. So, leave it as it is, my friend, and don't harm yourself by scolding! If the day will come, when you will see: this Siddhartha is harming me, then speak a word and Siddhartha will go on his own path. But until then, let's be satisfied with one another.”
Source: Siddhartha
“Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.”
“Surely some revelation is at hand.”
“Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.”
“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”
Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
“Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labor in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;
O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.”
“Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality. ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth”
“Surely, tears are incredible and best therapy and remedy for sorrow, grief, and pain that, attack and occupy one's life.”
“Surely, tears are incredible and the best therapy and remedy for sorrow, grief, and pain that attack and occupy one's life.”
“Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.”
“Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.”
Source: Bark: Stories
“Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.”
“Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.”
“Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned”
“Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.”
“Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.”
“Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.”
“Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in Don’t Shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It’s the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.”
Source: On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord
“Surely, the Creator was with me in every circumstance. He has granted me a successful completion of my doctorate degree.”
“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
“Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.”
“Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.”
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.”
“Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.”
“Surely the flowers of a hundred spring are simply the souls of beautiful things!”
Source: The Watchman and Other Poems
“Surely the flowers of a hundred springs are simply the souls of beautiful things!”
Source: The Watchman and Other Poems
“Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.”
“Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.”
Source: Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes
“Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.”
“Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.”
“Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.”
“Surely the greatest tragedy for men in regard to the feminine principle is that their fear alienates them from their own anima, the principle of relatedness, feeling and connection to the life force. This alienation from self obliges alienation from other men as well. Often their only connection with each other comes through superficial talk about outer events, such as sports and politics.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“Surely the heart is not a fitting place to house hatred. But where is its place? I don't know. That is one of the universe's Unknowns. It would seem that the God's truly delight in messing things up, for in not having created a particular spot to house hatred, they have provoked eternal chaos. Hatred us forever hunting down a refuge, poking it's nose where it shouldn't, taking over sites reserved for others, invariably forcing out love.”
Source: The Law of Love
“Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.”
“Surely the idea of a few more months tied to me can't be such a hardship that you'd like to tie yourself to me for years.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.”
Source: The Woman's Bible
“Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.”
“Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.”
Source: That We Might Have Joy
“Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.”
“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.”
“Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world”
Source: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History