Quotes About Barrenness

#1. Not, "He shall one day grant a revival, and then next day leave His Church to barrenness." His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him.

Kristen Reed

#3. But no matter how ferociously pitiable is the dried up graveyard, the sand and barrenness and the sluggish little stream have their own persistent individual damnation. The world is at least so constructed that its treasures may be damned each in a different manner and degree.

Mary MacLane

#4. If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Louis Pasteur

#5. He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

Joshua Reynolds

#6. There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

Alan Moore

#7. There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

Aristotle.

#8. What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

John Quincy Adams

#9. Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

Spencer W. Kimball

#10. The cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

Anais Nin

#11. All along I'd vaguely assumed the emptiness and the pain meant I was doing something wrong. But maybe it was all just part of the process so something new could be born. First the barrenness, to make space. Then the pain, which is the only way to a birth.

Stephanie Rische

#12. There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and how it comes to pass that so many heads on which nature seemed to have inflicted the curse of barrenness should teem with voluminous productions.

Washington Irving

#14. Give me, if you will, prayers;
Or let me know dryness,
An abudance of devotion,
Or if not, then barrenness.
In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,
I find my peace,
What do you want of me?
Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:
What do you want of me?

Teresa Of Avila

#15. When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

George Carey

#16. wild men in wild places, fighting cold, heat, starvation, thirst, barrenness, facing the elements in all their ferocity, usually retrograded, descended to the savage, lost all heart and soul and became mere brutes.

Zane Grey

#17. The country is crazy with barrenness, and the sea mocks it with its terrible beauty.

Elizabeth Stoddard

#18. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#19. It is very dangerous to live for other people because you end up living a disastrous life of barrenness.

Euginia Herlihy

#20. The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out.

Kobo Abe

#21. Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

Loren Eiseley

#22. We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness, or doubtings; and none of all these should, for one moment retard our course.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

#23. The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

Hugh B. Brown

#24. Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

#25. THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

William Carlos Williams

#26. Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile.

Martin Cosgrove

#27. Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Ellen G. White

#28. Say, doth she weep for very wantonness?
Or is it that she dimly doth foresee
Across her youth the joys grow less and less
The burden of the days that are to be:
Autumn and withered leaves and vanity,
And winter bringing end in barrenness."
-from "My Lady April

Ernest Dowson

#29. The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

Donald M. MacKinnon

#30. When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.

Herman Melville

#31. Faith is a converter. It turns weakness into strength, barrenness into fruitfulness, death to life.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#32. Could not but think, as I have often remarked to others, that much more of true religion consists in deep humility, brokenness of heart, and an abasing sense of barrenness and want of grace and holiness than most who are called Christians imagine

David Brainerd

#33. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#34. I daresay that your son or daughter has been sent as an answer to someone's cry and that the enemy sees the greatness and the deliverer in him or her and is trying to prevent them from entering the world.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#35. At the cry of a new born salt is being sprinkle at the wound of a barren woman

Peter Adejimi

#36. When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn't see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a servant of God and a soldier of the cross, a great threat to his kingdom.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#37. Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#38. Whoever God loves, satan hates; whoever God blesses, satan tries to curse. I believe, without a doubt, that the enemy tries to get to God through us - his children and the apples of His eye.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#39. ....not only does the devil hate man, but he also has a special hatred for women and the wombs of women; for through the wombs of women come offspring who bring forth the purposes and intents of God here on earth.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea