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Quotes About Wrought

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
~ Hudson Taylor
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
~ Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"
The complacent disregard by the latter of the social catastrophe wrought in the former appalls me almost as much as the catastrophe itself.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
~ Johannes Tauler
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
~ Charles Churchill
I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .
~ William Shakespeare
in modern times most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority. As
~ William Styron
He, Cromwell, touches a finger to the metal. You would not guess it to look at him now, but his father was a blacksmith; he has affinity with iron, steel, with everything that is mined from the earth or forged, everything that is made molten, or wrought, or given a cutting edge. The executioner's blade is incised with Christ's crown of thorns, and with the words of a prayer.
~ Hilary Mantel
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
~ Roger Zelazny
the Holy Spirit is the author of this work in us, so that although it is our duty, it is his grace and strength whereby it is performed; as also the manner how it is wrought by him, which is principally intended: [1.]
~ John Owen
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
~ Thomas Dunn English
Pray fIor my soul, more things are wrought bX prayer than this world dreams of -- Tennyson
~ Neville Goddard