Quotes about Cliff
As Luke's story unfolds, Jesus continues to undermine expectations involving political power and Jewish identity. In his first public appearance, in a synagogue service, he claims to be the messiah, which creates quite a buzz of support—until he tells them that he will bless Gentiles and be rejected by his own kinsmen. The crowd responds by trying to throw Jesus off a cliff. Israel's messiah isn't supposed to say things like this.
- Peter Enns
One cliff stood to the north toward Michmash, and the other to the south toward Geba.
- 1 Samuel 14:5
and the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
- 2 Chronicles 25:12
He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
- Job 39:28
O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
- Song of Solomon 2:14
I was thinking today of my greatest happiness, a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it.
- Virginia Woolf
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Keep your words. This pain is no life. You only feel pain because you're alive, boy! the keeper thundered. This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
- Ted Dekker
The result of the British war is a source of anxiety. For it is ascertained that the approaches to the island are protected by astonishing masses of cliff. Moreover, it is now known that there isn't a pennyweight of silver in that island, nor any hope of booty except from slaves, among whom I don't[Pg 283]Â suppose you can expect any instructed in literature or music.
- Cicero
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
- F Scott Fitzgerald