Gilead Quotes

#1. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

Richard Armour

#2. Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did. Our

Margaret Atwood

#3. Hair is like a flock of goatsstreaming down Mount Gilead. b

Anonymous

#4. There was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.

Margaret Atwood

#5. First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Stephen King

#6. Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

Stephen King

#7. On the other side of Mid-World, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, had drawn this divided woman to him and had created a third, who was far better, far stronger, than either of the previous two.

Stephen King

#8. Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. There was a saying in Gilead: Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall." "Uh-huh," Eddie said. "There was a saying in Brooklyn: You can't get snot off a suede jacket.

Stephen King

#10. God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach.

Smith Wigglesworth

#11. There is a balm in Gilead," she read from the back, "to make the wounded whole - " "There's power enough in Heaven / To cure a sin-sick soul.

Louise Penny

#12. Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She

Stephen King

#13. He looked back at them, and Eddie saw something he had never expected to see in his life - not even if that life stretched over a thousand years. Roland of Gilead was weeping.

Stephen King

#14. The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove.

Margaret Atwood

#16. There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#17. For Gilead and the Calla!" he roared. "Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all!

Stephen King

#18. VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.
'VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD.

Stephen King

#19. Tell me truly, I implore
Is there
is there balm in Gilead?
tell me
tell me, I implore!

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

Anonymous

#21. It seems to me that none of this stuff is mine, that I'm nothing but Roland of Gilead's fucking secretary. I know that's stupid, but a part of me sort of believes it.

Stephen King

#22. There is a balm in Gilead
to make the wounded whole.

Louise Penny

#23. Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

Clarence Darrow

#24. My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that's almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

Kesha

#25. West," she said fondly, "whatever are you going to do when all of us leave you in peace?"
Sighing, West kissed her forehead. "I'll miss you, damn it.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. And I'll wash your other clothes. Shall I also order you a new set of leathers?"
"Don't-" Wrath shut his mouth. "Sure. That'd be great. And, ah, could you get me some boxers? Black? XXL?

J.R. Ward

#27. My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

Marilynne Robinson

#28. It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Marilynne Robinson

#29. Stores can be indifferent to something new.

Greg Ginn

#30. True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

J.C. Ryle

#31. There will be water if God wills it.

Stephen King

#32. Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

Marilynne Robinson

#33. Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Stephen King

#34. Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

Chief Seattle

#35. We all make decisions as though we will live forever.

Lucinda Riley

#36. Our values have led us where we are in life right now. We can't excel beyond the power behind our values that we have embraced...

Assegid Habtewold

#37. How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

Sonny Rollins