Wet Eyes Quotes

• Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Letting Go, Strong

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1997). “Pastor to Pastor: Tackling the Problems of Ministry”, p.99, Kregel Publications

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• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

  Mary Karr

  Laughter, Book, Reading

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• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Humanity

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• There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Eye, Godly, Revival

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• Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Peace, Fear, Eye

  'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

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• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mother, Sweet, War

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