Bishop Reginald Heber Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

9 Famous Quotes by Bishop Reginald Heber
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“Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: At a Funeral (st. 3)
“The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.”
Gods Quotes
Source: Missionary Hymn
“Failed the bright promise of your early day?”
Failure Quotes
Source: Palestine (l. 113)
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
Failure Quotes
Source: Palestine (l. 113)
“Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love.”
Fireflies Quotes
Source: Tour Through Ceylon
“What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.”
Worship Quotes
Source: From Greenland's Icy Mountains--Missionary Hymn
“Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still.”
Duty Quotes
Source: Journal
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Spring Quotes
Source: Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity
“No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence.”
Architecture Quotes
Source: Palestine (l. 163)