#tidings

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. ↗

— E. B. White

#beyond #bury #child #deep #happy

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings. ↗

— Sophocles

#bearer #loves #man #tidings

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. ↗

— John Strachan

#christian #church #converted #day #ever

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#appearing #before #bring #country #good

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. ↗

— Earl Warren

#before #bells #completion #distinguished #joyous

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#backs #branded #day #foreheads #give

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. ↗

— John Muir

#climb #get #good #mountains #their

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#literature #tidings #within #without #world

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. ↗

— Black Kettle

#good #home #may #our #our people

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel. ↗