#billows

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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#difficulty #disturb #feeble #gales #great

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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#closer #cloud #clouds #come #get

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#character #formed #stormy #world