“What is the scent of water?"
"Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.”
Source: The Scent of Water
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Elizabeth Goudge 20
English fiction writer 1900–1984Related quotes
“Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.”
Charlie Rose interview (2001)
“How does the water
Come down at Lodore?”
St. 1.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
"Mount Shasta" in Picturesque California (1888-1890) page 165; reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 5
1880s
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: It is not possible to enter into the nature of the Good by standing aloof from it — by merely speculating upon it. Act the Good, and you will believe in it. Throw yourself into the stream of the world's good tendency and you will feel the force of the current and the direction in which it is setting. The conviction that the world is moving toward great ends of progress will come surely to him who is himself engaged in the work of progress.
By ceaseless efforts to live the good life we maintain our moral sanity. Not from without, but from within, flow the divine waters that renew the soul.
Letter IX
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
“Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A phrase used in many notable speeches by King, which is actually a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible.
Misattributed
Variant: Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 19.