The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind; you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in d...arkness, but you shall be unable to find your way; and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upwards towards consciousness; the trees are i...mperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich are the sea-gods:Mwho gives gifts but they? They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:... They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise. Every wave is wealth to Daedalus, Wealth to the cunning artist who can work This matchless strength. Where shall he find, O waves! A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves wi...th Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law wh...ich executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress... advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call... To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »