Quotes about Gloom

It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

Prophetic ministers and believers in Christ's return are continually mocked as doom and gloom prognosticators whose messages only spread fear and anxiety.

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

Dark with excessive bright.

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

As Francis Thompson wrote in his classic poem "The Hound of Heaven," "Is my gloom, after all, shade of His hand outstretched caressingly?