#stirring

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#been #born #called #capacity #christmas

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ↗

— Andre Gide

#combat #direct #easier #labors #lead

I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#chart #dallas #decided #development #emotions

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. ↗

— Clement Clarke Moore

#before #creature #even #house #mouse

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#different #different way #duty #i #i think

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#measures #sing #song #stirring #tongue

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. ↗

— Jules Verne

#breath #covers #desert #everything #feels

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#breathing #distant #disturbed #giant #heavy

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy. ↗

— William Whitelaw

#around #country #going #harold #stirring