Quotes about Desert

But "To Be Near Unto God" in the midst of busy avocations yields its sweetest blessedness when it is cultivated in the face of sin and the world, as an oasis in the desert of life.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.