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“It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.”

Stills God Beautiful Voice Church Speech Awful Frightened Closets Gracious Puritan Reverberation Beautiful Voice

Book:The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

Source: The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

“The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.”

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Book:Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]

Source: Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]

“Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.”

Men Beautiful Lost Rich Figures Speech Patterns Discourse Carpet Extending Persian

Book:Greek and Roman Lives

Source: Greek and Roman Lives

“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source: Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures

“It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.”

Trying Beautiful Speech Patterns British Comparison Fluid Barbarians

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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