“Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.”
Easter Day II, l. 34-35.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Arthur Hugh Clough 34
English poet 1819–1861Related quotes
“My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!”
On a Girdle (1664), st. 2.
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
Source: Resignation (1849), l. 215-218
“While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 62).
Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 42.
Context: There can be no doubt that Jesus was a remarkably cheerful person and that his joy, like his faith and hope, was infectious. This was in fact the most characteristic and most noticeable difference between Jesus and John. As we shall see later, Jesus feasted while John fasted (Luke 7:31-34).
“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”
Of Parents and Children
Essays (1625)
Context: The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
“True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.”
Part Five “Revels”, Chapter i “Cal, Among Miracles” (p. 199)
(1987), BOOK TWO: THE FUGUE
