Tidings Quotes - Page 3

• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, Regret, Addresses

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Names, Light, Land

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• Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sea, Victory, Ears

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge”, p.310

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• Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Jesus, Easter, Saint

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• To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wish, Firsts, Serious

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• It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Fear, Heart, Evil

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “The Evil Eye”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

  Paracelsus

  Messengers, Spirit, Teach

  Paracelsus (1951). “Paracelsus: Selected Writings”

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• It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings of great joy and this must be reflected in our lives, if we are to be believable especially as we suggest to others that there is, in fact, not only a better way, but also the way. Scriptures that speak of man as a being who "might have joy" have more impact when falling from the lips or pens of men and women whose lives give fresh evidence of the validity of that scripture.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fall, Men, Impact

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• I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

  David Brin

  Regret, Ambiguous, I Regret

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• So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy for all people." That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

  Walter Wangerin

  Healing, People, Joy

  Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.107, Zondervan

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• As for his evil tidings,
  Belshazzar's overthrow,
  Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
  What soon enough he would know?

  Robert Frost

  Soon Enough, Evil, Knows

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Progress, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.213, Penguin

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• In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Brother, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.317, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

  Edward Fairfax

  Joy, Mind, Ears

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• The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Religious, Angel, Bears

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• Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

  Fanny Burney

  Evil, Mind, Friendly

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• I want you to sense the Holy Spirit brooding over you. Is this too good to be true? You betcha, it's the good news. Does He border on fantasy? You betcha, it's the gospel. Glad tidings of great joy, heaven has come instead of hell, Jesus has come instead of the devil. You can have the life you always wanted, instead of the life you have always had - instead. That is possible because of the absolute, incredible, incomparable favor of God.

  Graham Cooke

  Jesus, Joy, Heaven

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• All angels bring revelations and tidings of their superiors. The first bring word of God who is their inspiration, while the others, according to where they are, tell of those inspired by God... the holiest of the seraphim 'cry out to one another' (Is. 6:3)... this shows that the first ranks pass on to the second what they know of God.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Inspiration, Angel

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• We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Ideas, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Brother, Lying

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• If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

  Richard Baxter

  Jesus, Blessed, Saint

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 102, 1895.

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• I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Want, Glory

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, V, 1877.

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• Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Giving, Soul

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• The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

  Walter Benjamin

  Heart, Past, Mouths

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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