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Quotes About Pierced

The magnificent cause of being— The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world— Leaves you With him for whom no phantasy moves, And you are pierced by a death.
~ Wallace Stevens
The Broken Vessel Have you ever been scorched by the hot words of Jesus? Has He ever spoken something so deep into your heart that you were cut to the very core of your being? I think this is exactly what happened to John in the passage below. I believe he was pierced by God in his fleshly strength, never to recover. When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command
~ James W. Goll
At the Lamb's high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King, Who hath washed us in the tide Flowing from His pierced side. . . . Mighty Victim from the sky, Hell's fierce powers beneath Thee lie; Thou hast conquered in the fight, Thou hast brought us life and light;
~ David P. Gushee
My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
~ Jean Genet
The torment of personal relations. Nothing new there except in the disguise, and in the escape on the wings of adjectives. Sweet to be pierced by daggers at the end of paragraphs.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Melisande blinked rapidly, then looked back to the little box with garnet earrings. Her ears weren't even pierced. She touched one of the garnets with a fingertip and wondered if he'd ever looked-really looked- at her at all.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.
~ ASAP Rocky
I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.
~ Jennifer Garner
I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.
~ Amanda Holden
He doesn't pretend," the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. "Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?" "Yes," Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. "Me too," he said.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
see the hidden meaning of Scripture in all its fullness (for the word of God is a pearl and may be pierced on every side)
~ Jerome
Every blessing a Christian ever receives is from a pierced hand.
~ Douglas Wilson
Coming to worship the Lord in the "beauty of holiness" somehow gets translated into the "warmth of niceness." Almost entirely gone is the experience of being run through, pierced by the numinous.
~ Douglas Wilson
Remember that Jesus has a body in this world. You are His hands and feet. But remember also that His hands and feet were pierced.
~ Douglas Wilson
unbearable cry pierced the darkness. It was the sound of pain. The sound of birth.
~ Robin Parrish
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
~ Anonymous
now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?
~ Garth Nix
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
~ Saint Augustine, Confessions
One shard of brilliant summer pierced me and remains. By this only unregenerate bone I am not dead, but waiting.
~ Audre Lorde
The functions filled spacetime and they pierced his soul. Exhilarated, he rode their gaudy brilliance through the hearts of aging stars.
~ Stephen Baxter
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
~ Bob McDonnell
Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.
~ Devendra Banhart
Love with his gilded bow and crystal arrows Has slain us all, Has pierced the English sparrows Who languish for each other in the dust, While from their bosoms, puffed with hopeless lust, The red drops fall.
~ bishop elizabeth iii