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Quotes About Storms

Accustomed to the tranquil side of nature, she sought the dramatic in its stead. She loved the sea only for its storms, and the green grass only when it grew in patches among ruins.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Accustomed to the peaceful, she turned in reaction to the picturesque. She loved the sea only for its storms, green foliage only when it was scattered amid ruins.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Ellos, los escritores, eran pródigos como reyes y estaban llenos de ideales ambiciosos y fantásticos delirios. Era una existencia entre el cielo y la tierra, metida en las tormentas, algo sublime
~ Gustave Flaubert
And when the storms came through They found me and you Back together And when the sun would shine It was yours and mine. Yours and mine forever.
~ Vanessa L. Williams
When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms.
~ J. Vernon McGee
Once again the centre of international storms. Neither Athens nor Rome aroused so many passions. When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it's not the first time, it's a homecoming. —ELIE WIESEL, open letter to BARACK OBAMA,
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!
~ Robert Browning
But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention
~ Max Lucado
Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness. We begin to wonder if love lives in heaven. If God can sleep in our storms, if his eyes stay shut when our eyes grow wide, if he permits storms after we got on his boat, does he care? Fear unleashes a swarm of doubts, anger-stirring doubts. Fear at its center, is a perceived loss of control.
~ Max Lucado
Storms come to the obedient.
~ Max Lucado
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
~ Maya Angelou
After that exercise, the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my existence might or might not be bright or promising. From that encounter on, whether my days are stormy or sunny and if my nights are glorious or lonely, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If pessimism insists on occupying my thoughts, I remember there is always tomorrow.
~ Maya Angelou
the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my existence might or might not be bright and promising. From that encounter on, whether my days are stormy or sunny and if my nights are glorious or lonely, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If pessimism insists on occupying my thoughts, I remember there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
~ Maya Angelou
Yes, storms are damaging, but we need them because they clear away the bracken that prevents new flowers from having a chance to grow. And of course we need the sun to shine on those new flowers that without the storm might never have had a chance to bloom.
~ Meg Cabot
Little storms of despair, hopelessness, or self-hatred may squall up out of nowhere in our lives. We can hunker down and protect ourselves even when the storm is inside us.
~ Melody Beattie
Opportunity will be hidden among the chaos. Storms clean the oceans, winds carry the seeds.
~ Bear Grylls
Write this on your bathroom mirror: Struggle develops strength and storms make you stronger.
~ Bear Grylls
We'll probably never learn to enjoy our storms, but we can learn to enjoy God's presence in the midst of them.
~ Beth Moore
We'll probably never learn to enjoy our storms, but we can learn to enjoy God's presence in the storm!
~ Beth Moore
At dusk she switched to gin. Her marrying hour. The hour between the dog and the wolf. It sometimes seemed that dusk came to the island several times a day. Brought in by storms and fog. The change was in the fog. The Devil. Pearl's mother had once told her that she must never be embarrassed to tell another that she had seen the Devil.
~ Joy Williams
She wanted to understand why she was so afraid of the storms, but prying into one's deepest fears was almost as terrifying as the fear itself.
~ Julia Quinn
The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.
~ Billy Graham