Quotes about Mantle

So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.

Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.

The wakeful nightingale, she all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament with living sapphires: Hesperus, that led the starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.