#he

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#definition #old #poetry #teacher #understand

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn. ↗

— William Gurnall

#court #found #friends #god #had

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. ↗

— William Gurnall

#exceeded #far #less #look #than

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#fight #heroism #image #intellectual #israel

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

#desire #duty #only #others #our

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. ↗

— William Gurnall

#drawing #earth #god #hand #hell

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

#among #compare #doctrines #false #like

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace. ↗

— William Gurnall

#carry #debt #god #god hath #grace