All Quotes By Tag: Hope
“It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.”
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“Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.”
“Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.”
“As for you, you’re unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?”
“Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.”
“Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?”
“I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.”
“Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?”
“The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.”
“As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.”
“Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.”
“You do not love me; you love my success!”
“O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?”
“There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:”
“Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-”