“The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.” LyingPoorGoldSaintStoresHungryBreadNakedChestsServing OthersCloaksAlmsgiving Author:Saint Basil
“Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!” PastLyingLostPrayerYouthSaintPatron Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.” LyingFatherForgetLordColdPureMountainStonesSaintBonesOur FatherAlpine Book:The Complete Poems Source: The Complete Poems
“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.” MenHumansArtSoulMatterLightMightLyingEducationWiseFiguresHeroStonesSaintPhilosopherBlockGreat MenRemoveSculptureStatuesHuman SoulConcealedMarbleRubbishSculptorsSuperfluousPlebeians Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd
“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.” KnowsFeelsHumansLooksSoulEyeLyingNightDarkCommonEffectsHolyConstitutionBlessedSaintGet UpEmptinessFatigueDark NightDark Night Of The Soul Book:All the King's Men Source: All the King's Men