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Letter "C" » covering
«Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
cloaks, covering, coverings
«Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
covering, splendor, woven
«I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up»
«I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.»
«For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.»
«He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.»
«Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? / Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? / But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.»
«Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.»
«If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; / What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? / Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? / If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; / Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; / (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) / If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; / If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; / If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: / Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.»
«Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
appeal, covering, coverings, mask, obscures, tribulation, tribulations, veil
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