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Quotes About Tidings

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
~ Aeschylus
The Gospel of God is glad tidings of good things.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The Gospel of glad tidings is the power of God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Publish glad tidings, tidings of peace; Tidings of Jesus, redemption, and release. The king's business required haste. – 1 Samuel 21:8
~ Robert J. Morgan
Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.
~ Robert J. Morgan
Ye Christian heralds, go proclaim Salvation through Emmanuel's name; To distant climes the tidings bear, And plant the Rose of Sharon there.
~ Robert J. Morgan
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.
~ Anonymous
He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.
~ Samuel Johnson
Awake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with stealthy wings, and to subtle ears good tidings are proclaimed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that humanity knelt down before the opposite of the origin, the meaning, the right of the evangel, the fact that in the concept of 'church', humanity canonized the very thing the 'bearer of glad tidings' felt to be beneath him, behind him - you will not find a greater example of world-historical irony - -
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
~ John Tyler
I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
~ Robert Toombs
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10.
~ Ellen G. White
Many a spear dawn-cold to the touch will be taken down and waved on high; the swept harp won't waken warriors, but the raven winging darkly over the doomed will have news, tidings for the eagle of how he hoked and ate, how the wolf and he made short work of the dead.
~ Seamus Heaney
What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope. - The Evil Eye
~ Mary Shelley
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
~ Earl Warren
Henery Fray was the first to follow. Then Gabriel arose and went off with Jan Coggan, who had offered him a lodging. A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs and about to depart, Fray came back again in a hurry. Flourishing his finger ominously he threw a gaze teeming with tidings just where his eye alighted by accident, which happened to be in Joseph Poorgrass's face.
~ Thomas Hardy
I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.
~ Bible
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.
~ William Tyndale
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.
~ Mahalia Jackson