Quotes about Shadow
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. (James 1:16—17)
- John Bevere
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. (Psalm 91:1 AMPC)
- Lysa TerKeurst
My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
- John Keats
I am a shadow now, alas! alas! Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling Alone: I chant alone the holy mass, While little sounds of life are round me knelling, And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass, And many a chapel bell the hour is telling, 310 Paining me through: those sounds grow strange to me, And thou art distant in Humanity.
- John Keats
If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.
- James Allen
one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.
- James Allen
If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
- George Eliot
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
- Muhammad Ali
The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either?
- Charles Dickens
As, when the sun shines above the earth, the shadow is spread over its lower part, because its spherical shape makes it impossible for it to be clasped all round at one and the same time by the rays, and necessarily, on whatever side the sun's rays may fall on some particular point of the globe, if we follow a straight diameter, we shall find shadow upon the opposite point, and so, continuously, at the opposite end of the direct line of the rays shadow moves round that globe,
- Gregory of Nyssa
I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?
- John Wesley