quotes about Gourds

last updated: November 28, 2023

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
-- Charles Spurgeon

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The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
-- Davy Crockett

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when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
-- Dorothy Gilman

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As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure ***** my progress in the divine life.
-- Thomas Cogswell Upham

Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

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“you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”
“I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it].”
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.”
“I learned that strength is a matter of the made-up mind.”

Source : "Hear the Wind Blow!: Poems of Protest & Prophecy".
“It makes every Haitian proud to have such a hospital,”

Source : "Haitian Prime Minister Meets with PIH, Harvard". www.pih.org. June 5, 2014.
“This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.”

Source : Marva J. Dawn (2009). “In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life”, p.44, InterVarsity Press
“There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.”
“From my perspective, we actually have to have a stronger, bolder economic message that's not just for white working-class voters, but for people who don't go to college who are white, black, Latino, or wherever. We have to communicate that we care about Detroit and Appalachia, and people suffering in both are problems for the country and a problem for the Democratic Party, not just one or just the other.”