Langour Quotes & Sayings

Throughout the Bible, we see pictures of the global church (which includes all followers of Jesus in all locations) and the local church (which includes particular followers of Jesus in a particular location). Out of 114 times that the "church" is mentioned in the New Testament, at least ninety of them refer to specific local gatherings of believers who have banded together for fellowship and mission. God intends for every follower of Jesus to be a part of such a gathering under the servant leadership of pastors who shepherd the church for the glory of God. — Francis Chan

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair. — Louie Giglio

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. — Siri Hustvedt

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance. — Walter Scott

Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." No human being is going to be truly satisfied with life until he or she loves God. — Myles Munroe

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials. — Jennifer Stone

He loves to tease and nettle me to the brink of murder, but I wouldn't have it any other way. He is everything in this world to me. Samia — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus. — Ernest Cline

[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.] — Jonathan Franzen

I live for the moments that won't die in my memory. — Jenim Dibie

My sister-in-law found a real surprise in her stockings - my brother. — Milton Berle

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal. — Ann Coulter

My home, my world, my comfort zone, as Rachel says? It's not a place. It's not a frozen moment in time. It's inside, in my heart, full of the pieces of everyone I love. Things will change. But love won't — Kelly Bingham

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere. — Susan Mitchell

you devil's doll! — Anton Chekhov

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life ... These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it. — Evelyn Waugh

That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look - I find it fascinating that I'm sitting here talking about some of these things, and not to low tones, and my kids are in the other room. I have to trust that if they hear what I'm saying and they have questions about it, I'll be able to answer it, and that's fine. But that's part of the scariness of it - the reality of opening up my own life and my own feelings. — John Hodgman

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. — Buddha