New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle. . . Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
When I was 20, I was contemplating quitting. I was at the first event of the season and I overhead a conversation between two girls. One told the other, "God still loves you," and that caught my attention. Later that day, I caught up with the girl and asked her what she meant. Before then, I'd never really thought about God. But there was an undeniable stirring in me and I couldn't ignore it.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.
You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. . . without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.
