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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. -- Paul Tillich
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless... -- William Wordsworth
Our murmuring is the devil's music. -- Thomas Watson
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. -- Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable? -- Rumi
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth. -- Gaston Bachelard
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. -- Gaston Bachelard
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. -- Kate Chopin
The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement. -- Isaac of Nineveh
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land. -- Joyce Meyer
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! -- Henry Ward Beecher
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us. -- William Mackergo Taylor
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. -- Ian Mcewan
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand. -- William Faulkner
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. -- William Wordsworth
A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!. -- Neal A. Maxwell
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. -- Emma Orczy
[T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities. -- William Crookes
I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension. -- Susan Orlean
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! -- Charles Dickens
In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor. -- Eugene Kennedy
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye tossed the air O'er maiden cheeks, that took a fresher glow; Ye rolled the round white cloud through depths of blue; Ye shook from shaded flowers the lingering dew; Before you the catalpa's blossoms flew, Light blossoms, dropping on the grass like snow. -- William C. Bryant
Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles. -- Charles Spurgeon
The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race. -- John Dryden
Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring. -- Charles Spurgeon
My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring. -- Mason Cooley
When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God. -- Arthur W. Pink
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy. -- Confucius
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. -- Ann Voskamp
I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers. -- Friedrich Holderlin
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die -- Nikolai Gogol
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ. -- Samuel Rutherford
Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring. -- Leopold Sedar Senghor
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out. -- Jennifer Donnelly
[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ. -- Samuel Rutherford
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! -- Jeremiah Burroughs
Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss. -- Saigy?
Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss. -- Saigy?
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love? -- Alexander Pope
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep. -- John Milton
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train. -- William Godwin
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances. -- Alphonse Karr
The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them. -- Saint Francis de Sales

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