Storm Quotes - Page 7

• Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Weather, Heaven, Lightning

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.175

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• As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Hero, Adversity

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• Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

  Horace

  Sea, Hug, Dangerous

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• In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

  Thomas Brooks

  Wings, Shelter

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.29

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• Storms purify the atmosphere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Atmosphere

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Temptation

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• Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

  Menander

  Determination, Fighting, Weather

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• Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

  John Morton

  Attitude, Self, Challenges

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• The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

  Virgil

  Fear, Wind, Tree

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• ...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Faces, Partners, Calamity

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.372, Macmillan

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• My calmness is peace of heart, which reflects in the life I live. This peace of heart is the source that calms the storm.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Calm, Source

  Source: www.naij.com

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• There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.

  Ase-Marie Nesse

  Life, Dark, Light

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• Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

  Walter Scott

  Driving, Blind, Instruments

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The waverly novels”, p.595

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• Tell me what do you do when you've done all you can and it seems like you can't make it through? Well you just stand, stand, stand, don't you dare give up. Through the storm, through the rain, through the hurt , stand through the pain, hold on, be strong, God will step in and it won't be long.

  Donnie McClurkin

  Hurt, Strong, Pain

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• If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Dark, Clouds, Sky

  J. Vernon McGee (1983). “1 Corinthians Through Revelation”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Summer, Time, Eye

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.315

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• I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical
  church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Church, Ark

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• That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.

  Alyson Noel

  Love Is, Weather, Broken

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• Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.

  Glenn Beck

  Understood, Knows

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Passion, Tempest, Harbors

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• Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Weather, Tree

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

  Tobias Smollett

  Action, Speak, Valiant

  Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189

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• Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.

  Patience Strong

  Adversity, Light, Sorrow

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• LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.

  Mike Leach

  Lsu, Lightning, Would Be

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• You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

  Martha Graham

  Technique, Adequate, Speech

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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