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“I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.”

Ifs Wells Kind May Might Jesus Holy Jokes Breaths Spokes Suspects Reluctant Parables

Author:Frederick Buechner

“In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.”

Heart May Moments Happens Names Sound Silence Breaths Extraordinary That Moment Dusk Advent Extraordinary Things Matched Extraordinary Moments Midwinter

Author:Frederick Buechner

“And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.”

Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.”

May Chance Accounts Breaths Raises Esteem Reputation

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.”

Men May Hands Care Turns Wealth White Break Rich Share Son Breaths Factories Bubbles Rich Man

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.”

People Thinking Firsts May Has Beens Eye Together Past Names Son Decided Breaths Witness His Eyes Stamps Luther

Author:Bernhard Rust

“To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.”

May Real Values Cases Virtue Subjects Gold Breaths Constant Atmosphere Currency Finest Obscure Exposure Slander Brightness Real Value

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.