Wet Eyes Quotes:

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

- Erwin W. Lutzer

source: Erwin W. Lutzer (1997). “Pastor to Pastor: Tackling the Problems of Ministry”, p.99, Kregel Publications

topic: Christian, Letting Go, Strong, Wet Eyes, Jealously

Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

- Mary Karr

topic: Laughter, Book, Reading, Spats, Wet Eyes

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

- James A. Baldwin

source: "Everybody’s Protest Novel". Essay by James A. Baldwin (1949), as quoted in "Uneasy Rider" by Alexandra Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2015.

topic: Inability, Emotion, Dishonesty, Wet Eyes, Ostentatious

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Eye, Godly, Revival, Wet Eyes

Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

- Phineas Fletcher

source: 'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

topic: Fear, Eye, Feet, Wet Eyes, Prince Of Peace

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Mother, Sweet, War, Butchery, Wet Eyes