Top 53 Pierces Quotes
#1. Which end of the needle are you going to be- the side held by string or the point that pierces the cloth?
Sue Monk Kidd
#4. A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#5. Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson
#6. What do you know about my parents?" His voice pierces through me, and it's as though I can feel it, tugging outward on the tender spot at the hollow of my neck.
"Nothing! Other than that they raised a madman!
Kiersten White
#7. Light is formless, but pierces the eyes.
Wisdom is formless, but pierces the mind.
Faith is formless, but pierces the heart.
Love is formless, but pierces the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. Even in the depths of the darkest oceans, some light always pierces through.
Myself
#9. Scripture does what psychoanalysis can't do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in the light of Scripture, is to see yourself as you really are.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#10. There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.
Susan Denning
#11. No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#12. Can we accept the unexplained, the loss,
The crushing agony, and hold us still.
And nowhere is that clearer vision given
Which pierces a bewildering providence,
And opens windows upon highest heaven,
But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.
Amy Carmichael
#13. It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity - which happens when we do not blame someone else for our pain - that it awakens a deeper respect for love.
John Armstrong
#14. Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#15. The fact is, those who are like everyone else arouse no hatred unless there is a reason. But when a resplendent inner self pierces the grossness that envelops it, some, quite irrationally, extend it heartfelt adoration; others, just as irrationally, try heart and soul to insult it.
Rabindranath Tagore
#16. Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.
Soulja Boy
#17. Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
Chanakya
#18. If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.
Megan McDonald
#19. The obstinate practicality of old women pierces and fortifies these families like the steel rods buried in walls of powdery concrete.
Barbara Kingsolver
#20. For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
William Penn
#21. The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.
William Gouge
#22. For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
Virginia Woolf
#23. When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Thomas Southerne
#24. Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
Robert Barron
#25. Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.
Rex Stout
#26. Truth inevitably pierces its target, the hearts of men".
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#27. Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
Henry Fielding
#28. Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, however, have a sequel; this is their promise. The encounter with happiness has no sequel. All is there instantly. Happiness is what pierces grief.
John Berger
#30. Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.
Brandon M. Herbert
#31. I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.
F.B. Meyer
#32. The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.
David Grossman
#33. The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
Mark Twain
#34. We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.
R. L. Hymers Jr.
#35. You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don't die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works its way slowly through your body until it pierces some major organ. Pray to the gods you worship that you never know what that feels like. (Jericho)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings
#37. When the sun goes down, it is very cold and then I easily start crying because the winter moon pierces my heart
The Smile of Winter
Angela Carter
#38. Depression loses its power when fresh vision pierces the darkness.
Peter Sinclair
#39. Every act of kindness, each moment spent in prayer, and every expression of love in the name of Christ pierces the heart of the enemy and sends him into retreat. These are the gentle weapons of the kingdom.
Richard Stearns
#40. Life for all its gains
pierces in ways that leave scars,
where I've bled, I've lived
Jim Ross
#41. We first observe how dreary and disagreeable an overclouded day is when a single sunbeam pierces through, and offers to us the exhilarating splendor of a serene hour.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. Love pierces the soul more beautifully than light pierces the eyes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#43. What is it about this twilight hour? Even the sound of a barely perceptible breeze pierces the heart.
Ono No Komachi
#44. Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the parts and unite the whole.
Lada Ray
#45. Vengeance is an arrow that in falling oft pierces him who shot it
H. Rider Haggard
#46. Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.
Friedrich Schiller
#47. The warlord pierces me with a hard stare. "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way."
"Or no way, " I retort.
Amanda Bouchet
#48. Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.
Melina Marchetta
#49. The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Earl Warren
#50. A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off your blindness with its brilliance.
Ksenia Anske
#51. You got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.
Sue Monk Kidd
#52. There's a danger and a beauty to the moment which seems out of time. It pierces something deep inside of him, bypassing his rationale, and it touches his very core. In a sudden shock of illumination, and of knowing, he recognizes this woman is his destiny, and their fates are intertwined.
Scarlett Amaris
#53. Night. Rain. A livid sky pierces the lacework
Of spires and towers, the silhouette of a Gothic
Town dim in the gray distance.
Paul Verlaine
