Centuries earlier, Job suffered immeasurable losses. His wealth was stripped from him his family destroyed. Finally, after all else was gone, he was stricken with boils and failing health. Every day and every hour he suffered physical, emotional, and spiritual pain. His friends mocked him, but Job remained faithful. He emphatically declared, For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. (Job 19 25-26.)
Quotes about stricken (16 Quotes)
I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.
Lest Love should value less
What Loss would value more
Had it the stricken privilege,
It cherishes before.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.'
The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
We're getting reports of how some religion-based 'aid' groups are trying to fly evangelists into the stricken areas and how U. S. Army chaplains are carrying bibles -- not food or water -- to 'comfort' people,
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
But on this, God's harp supernal, stretched but to be stricken once,
Hoary time is a beginner, Life a bungler, Death a dunce.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Time does not bring relief you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain I miss him in the weeping of the rain I want him at the shrinking of the tide The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide There are a hundred places where I fear To go, so with his memory they brim And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, There is no memory of him here And so stand stricken, so remembering him.
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.