Quotes about Surface

Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause.

But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.

The sins of some men are obvious, going ahead of them to judgment; but the sins of others do not surface until later.

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Sin easily hides where there is no heat of trials and afflictions. In times of prosperity and success, even a wicked man will seem kind and generous. Under the heat of trials, however, the impurities surface.

And to everybody there was always this sense of unlimited resources, she supposed, one after another, she, Lily, Augustus Carmichael, must feel, our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.