It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
What tedious homily of love have
you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have
patience, good people.
O Were my love yon Lilac fair,
Wi' purple blossoms to the Spring,
And I, a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing!
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
Such a life is very fine,
But it's not so nice as mine:
You must often as you trod,
Have wearied not to be abroad.
My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labor.
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories