Smites Quotes

#1. Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Jericho's walls fell flat: Rahab's house was on the wall, and yet it stood unmoved; my nature is built into the wall of humanity, and yet when destruction smites the race, I shall be secure. My soul, tie the scarlet thread in the window afresh, and rest in peace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.

George Muller

#4. Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

John Armstrong

#5. In a light that is fierce and strong one can see the world dissolve. To weak eyes it becomes solid, to weaker eyes it shows fists; before weaker eyes still it feels ashamed, and smites down whomsoever dares to look at it.

Franz Kafka

#6. ...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

David Jones

#7. It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

Ivan Panin

#8. If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

Orson Scott Card

#9. There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

William Langland

#10. St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil.

Lillian Stewart Carl

#11. Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

Joanna Baillie

#12. The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.

Debasish Mridha

#13. When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#14. Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

Jerrold Nadler

#16. Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#17. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking- chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

Theodore Dreiser

#18. A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

Nina Garcia

#20. Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

Jamie Oliver

#21. Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Ursula K. Le Guin