Top 50 Quotes About Quickening
#1. He who has no religious affection, is in a state of spiritual death, and is wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon his heart.
Jonathan Edwards
#2. A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.
Mark Rothko
#3. A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#4. There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
Martha Graham
#5. I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.
John Donne
#6. Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#7. But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.
Emmi Itaranta
#8. In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
Max Heindel
#9. The sight of her was like a swift, cool wind through his frame, quickening his body, alerting all his senses, making him completely aware he was a male and she a female.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#10. One of these days Princess, I promise you."
I turned to scowl at him once more, "I would never be desperate enough to want you." Okay that was a lie; my breaths were already quickening just feeling his sculpted body pressed against mine.
His smile was slow and sexy, "We'll see.
Molly McAdams
#11. A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit ... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.
Watchman Nee
#12. How can one little moment, one tiny touch, one quickening breath change so much?
Carian Cole
#13. By religion I mean perfected manhood,
the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
Henry Ward Beecher
#14. Could tiny birds be sifting through me right now, birds winging through the gaps between my cells, touching nothing, but quickening in my tissues, fleet?
Annie Dillard
#15. Having a purpose is one thing, but the quickening is a total animation of passion.
Bryant McGill
#16. There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.
Bryant McGill
#17. I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.
William Wordsworth
#19. No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#20. In the woods waits the only person with whom I can be myself. Gale. I can feel the muscles in my face relaxing, my pace quickening as I climb the hills
Suzanne Collins
#21. Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
William Ernest Henley
#22. Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
Followed each other till a dreary moor
Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.
William Wordsworth
#23. Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#24. Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#25. The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.
Abdu'l- Baha
#26. A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.
Michael J. Gelb
#27. There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..
Judith Kinghorn
#28. What sort of work do you do?"
Lifting her skirts with one hand, still holding the owl in the other, she started for the cottage. "Quickening. Citizens of this spacetime call it clockwork magic."
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Sharon Lynn Fisher
#29. What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
A.C. Dixon
#30. We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.
R.C. Sproul
#31. Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love's cosmic kiln. That's the great gift, no matter where it leads.
Jeff Brown
#32. Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.
Gail Carriger
#33. Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#34. I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
Harry Chapin
#35. If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.
Robert Murray McCheyne
#36. It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
Neale Donald Walsch
#37. What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. It is not mere envy but a delusional quickening in the blood.
Patti Smith
#38. Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Giacomo Puccini
#39. Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
Emily Greene Balch
#40. As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'
Neale Donald Walsch
#41. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever the quickening instrument.
Andrew Bonar
#42. All I could see was the warm grey of quickening sky.
Bram Stoker
#43. her chest began to rise and fall with a quickening of her breath, and her breath quickened because her heart fluttered - as if with her haste.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#44. And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. Auden
#45. Only if we completely acknowledge that what man requires today is God's life: the quickening of the spirit: will we then perceive how vain is any work performed by ourselves.
Watchman Nee
#46. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want another.
Maggie Stiefvater
#47. I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#48. My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums ...
Mary Oliver
#49. There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.
Neal Shusterman
#50. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell
