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Tag Name "Slumbering" (20)

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Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.
Alan Judd
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I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
Charles Spurgeon
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Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.
J. K. Rowling
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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
John Stott
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.
Lauren Willig
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In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron
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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James
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This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
Cecelia Ahern
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
Edward Young
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The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.
Emily Dickinson
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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.
John Keats
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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
John Stuart Blackie
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Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Don't try to impress God with your works or Don't attempt to please God with your merits or Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation. He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, Who's trying?
Martin E. Marty
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Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.
Vaclav Havel
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There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
Wynton Marsalis