Quotes about Rising
I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
— Francis Collins
Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.
— John Milton
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
— Thomas Jefferson
And it seemed she was like the sea, nothing but dark waves rising and heaving, heaving with a great swell, so that slowly her whole darkness was in motion, and she was Ocean rolling its dark, dumb mass.
— DH Lawrence
Don't ever think I feel for you, or feel over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
— Toni Morrison
Jesus never rebuked the ruling spirit over a city or country. He simply traveled from city to city, setting people free as He went. Freedom was rising from the ground up. And unbeknownst to most of the world, Satan was falling like lightning!
— Kris Vallotton
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.
— Jack Kerouac
But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.
— Victor Hugo
What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret.
— Victor Hugo
How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?
— Barbara Kingsolver
If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
— Julian of Norwich
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
— Henry David Thoreau