John Ross Macduff - The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may tu

The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace - upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.

- John Ross Macduff

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 431, 1895.

topic: Nature, Eye, Night, Singleness, Ardor