#stormy

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

#difficulty #disturb #feeble #gales #great

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#character #formed #stormy #world

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #does #ease #greatly #life

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#asunder #him #i #man #marry

Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#breakfast #interviews #love #me #stormy

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet. ↗

— Samuel Hoffenstein

#diet #directly #my soul #over #riot

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#chilling #come #contentious #does #lap

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#climate #coast #dwellers #england #even

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#always #celibacy #horse #lake #marriage