Trinity Saint David

Famous quotes containing the words trinity, saint and/or david:

    “Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Child in the womb,
    Or saint on a tomb
    Which way shall I lie
    To fall asleep?”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Sitting in that dusky wilderness, under that dark mountain, by the bright river which was full of reflected light, still I heard the wood thrush sing, as if no higher civilization could be attained. By this time the night was upon us.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)