142 Quotes by Compton Gage about books
"In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: For like as a woman that travails make haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them."
"Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago."
"The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly."
"An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more."
"Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more."
"From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee."
"If I have found favor in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore, shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come."
"Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee."
"Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed."
"As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee."