Quotes about Cold

It is of course possible to produce apparent 'parallels' to almost anything. There is after all only a limited range of things that one can say in any 'religion', and some statements, taken cold and out of context, will look a bit like other statements whose own setting would actually indicate significant differences.

darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

Because it was cold, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm. And Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.

The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.

So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!

My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.