Quotes about Scattered
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- St. Augustine
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
- Charles Dickens
Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,
- Charles Dickens
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
- William Faulkner
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- St. Augustine
Forbidden things are open to the imagination. That was why Eve ate the Apple of Knowledge, said Aunt Vidala: too much imagination. So it was better not to know some things. Otherwise your petals would get scattered.
- Margaret Atwood
The people of God are His representatives upon the earth, and He intends that they shall be lights in the moral darkness of this world. Scattered all over the country, in the towns, cities, and villages, they are God's witnesses, the channels through which He will communicate to an unbelieving world the knowledge of His will and the wonders of His grace.
- Ellen White
The second-century Letter to Diognetus put it beautifully: "As the soul is in the body, so Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world…. The invisible soul is guarded by the visible body, and Christians are known indeed to be in the world, but their godliness remains invisible.
- Scott Hahn
Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.
- Charles Dickens
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
- William Wordsworth