And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The Bible · John 1:5

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

The Bible · Proverbs 25:21–22

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

The Bible · Job 5:26

There is no riches above a sound body.

The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 30:16

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

Charles Dickens · Estella to Pip in the ruined garden of Satis House, eleven years on, in the novel's final chapter; the sentence before says "suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr · The source reads: “Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.” · The Irony of American History (1952)

O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley · The source reads: “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” · Ode to the West Wind (1819), l. 68

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.”

“Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.”

“There is no riches above a sound body.”

“I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.”

“O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

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