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“If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and time too long. We must be grateful to the divine goodness for having left us this hidden Jesus, this pillar of cloud and fire in this desert”

Ifs Long Hard Would Be Earth Jesus Left Fire Divine Goodness Grateful Clouds This Life Desert Be Grateful Sacraments Pillars Eucharist Adorable God With Us

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.”

People World Earth Cities Sea Mountain Empty Forests Desert Nothingness Unchangeable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”

Men Want Earth Values Given Cities Conditions Fields Changed Comfort Ocean Labor Misery Raised Forests Ships Plenty Desert Covered Possessed Savages Elegance Barbarism Talismans

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.”

World Years Long Earth Order Air Sky Average Desert Novelists Dry Fifty Valleys Construction Long Ago Peers Venture Other Worlds Pilgrim Telescopes Astronomers Chile Pristine Rainfall

Author:Brad Leithauser

“Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.”

Way Humans Made Earth Religion Passion Sin Common Christianity Enemy Darkness Forever Shapes Angel Unions Rose Mere Desert Human Life Cursed Glorify Human Love Procreation Common Things

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.”

Heart Kind Children Earth Mother Desert Absent Desolation Only Child Kind Heart

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.”

Earth Attention Wind Paid Constant Desert Breathing

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.”

Men Littles Ends Would Be Earth Values Nations Interest Progress Greatness Desert Revelations Great Men March Trading Caravans

Book:A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

“It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!”

May Earth Tree Flower Essence Miles Desert Grass Scent Blades Blades Of Grass

Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

“The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert earth alone. And in that deep and utter agony, Though then, then even most unfit to die I fell upon my knees and prayed for death.”

Heart Earth Dies My Heart Desert Knees Agony Fountain Desolation

Author:Charles Robert Maturin