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“My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

Asks Prayer Secret Shame Heavy Debt Granted Obstinate Quake

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”

Book:The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse; Together with Notes and a Glossary

Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse; Together with Notes and a Glossary

“At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.”

Ifs Whole Humor Religious Devil Stones Storm Arise Lakes Prisoner Centre Cursed Quake

Book:The Life of Luther Written by Himself

Source: The Life of Luther Written by Himself

“If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?”

Ifs Stills Earth Christian Christianity Sky Cry Raised Lions Famine Pestilence Quake

Author:Tertullian

“If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.”

Ifs Persons Matter Age Form Sex Fear Shapes Capable Terror Vices What Matters Temperament Quake

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.”

Men Feels Real Moving Hero Brave Terror Moving Forward Spite Sweat Betray Dread Brave Man Bowels Real Heroes Quake

Book:March

Source: March

“As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.”

Feels Made Ends Moments America Lines Decision Environment Fate Planets Paper Adults Green Series Reports Plastic Ongoing Competent Groceries Buyers Hinges Brief Moments Quake Checkouts

Author:Brian Williams

“Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.”

Men World Should Heaven Christ Son Awe Altars Halt God Is There Quake

Author:Francis of Assisi

“With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.”

Firsts Book Hands Century Computer Twenties March Elbows Quake

Author:Ray Bradbury

“What was it like working with John Carmack on Quake? Like being strapped onto a rocket during takeoff – in the middle of a hurricane.”

Middle Rockets Hurricanes Quake Takeoff

Author:Michael Abrash

“High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.”

Stills Shows Force Struggle Fire Survival Lovely Mysterious Flood Harsh Gross Romanticism Primal Dependency Metamorphosis Fling Quake Struggle For Survival

Author:Camille Paglia

“God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.”

World Way Jesus Crosses Died Shaking Quake

Author:Charles Stanley

“I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.”

World Believe Ideas I Believe Class Becoming Conscious Britain Ruling Becoming More Quake Ruling The World

Author:Johnny Vegas

“Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

Source: Gitanjali - Song Offerings

“My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.”

Eye Fear Behinds Decided Terror Flash Quake

Book:The Demon's Lexicon

Source: The Demon's Lexicon

“The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.”

Trying Earth Games Winning Results Machines Wave Cheating Flash Flood Tilt Eruption Tidal Waves Quake Pinball Volcanic Eruptions Flash Floods

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.”

“Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.”

Believe Belief My Own Unshakable Beth Quake

Book:Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

Source: Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

“They love indeed who quake to say they love.”

Life Love Life Quake

Author:Philip Sidney

“Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.”

Should Book Problem Opportunity Clear Disaster Collections Compassionate Quake

Author:Gaylene Preston

“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.”

Source: The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill

“There's divinity within because we come from the divine, A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time: When the wind blows, and the world turns, And the rain drops, and the baby cries, And the bird flies, and the ground quake, And the stars gleam.”

World Feels Turns Force Stars Cry Divine Wind Baby Bird Rain Blow Hip Hop Rap Divinity Gleam Quake Rain Drop

Author:Q-Tip

“What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.”

Knows Way Different Fighting Healing Conflict Endure Different Ways Stance Quake

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.”

People Thinking Stills Attention Progress Draws Dirty Salute Quake

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.”

States Crisis Accidents Decades Nuclear Handle Japan Maximum Tsunami Quake

Author:Naoto Kan

“We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.”

“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.”

People Ifs Believe Stills Important Reason Earth Moving Purpose Values Passion I Believe Healing Land Missing Mountain Busy Details I Believe In Glorify Moving In Quake

Author:Joseph Cook

“Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms God here: almighty, imparting manifold gifts, Him Whom the holy choir hymns, Who brings life to those in heaven and on earth, and is enthroned on high, coming from the Father, the divine force, self-commandeered; He is not a Child (for there is one worthy Child of the One who is best), nor is He outside the unseen Godhead, but of identical honor.”

Knows Children Made Self Earth Christian Form Spirit Father Force Heaven Divine Honor Holy Worthy Orthodox Almighty Unseen Knowing God Identical Hymns Choir Great Spirit Manifold Quake

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.”

Able Night Grows Justice Trouble Minutes Garden Plant Seeds Just One Vegetables Quake Barges Zucchini

Author:Dave Barry

“The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.”

Giving Facts Night President Hours Middle Minutes Response Disaster Reports Indication Middle Of The Night Quake

Author:Cameron Sinclair

“Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.”

People Mean States Form Pleasure Situation Goodness Deny Wounds Vulnerable Vulnerability Shakes Mask Assets Boots Bounty Life Means Quake

Book:Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide

Source: Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide

“Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.”

Way I Can Earth Poetry Rooms Break Five Breaths Blow Noses Awake Shakes Bubbles Traps Wraps Slap Quake

Author:Peter Gabriel