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Quotes About Visitation

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power
~ Wole Soyinka
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power
~ Wole Soyinka
Early in life I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety.
~ Woody Allen
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. If you are appalled, he said, then it was a devil who had visited you. If you feel lightened, it was an angel.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
~ Angelus Silesius
My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
~ RaeLynn
I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
~ Gary Larson
While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'
~ Claire Cameron
My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.
~ Chesa Boudin
Something is visiting, but it may not be the muse...
~ Jo Shapcott
This marks an important shift in the function of the north slope, no longer just a source of secure and plentiful water but a place of shrines, worship, and visitation. In a very real sense, this evolution into a place of commemoration and devotion marks the expansion of the sacred space of the Acropolis down its slopes and the opening up of the Sacred Rock to the larger community. This
~ Joan Breton Connelly
It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing people who have been in jail - after all, I was a member of Parliament - and visiting them there during their sentence.
~ Michael Portillo
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Be not slow to visit the sick.
~ Ecclesiastes
According to Smith's testimony, that of Jesus, and that of the Bible itself, Joseph Smith was visited by Satan masquerading as God and pronouncing his curse upon the Christian church and the creeds of Christendom.
~ Ed Decker
every other weekend. He can be a pain, so I don't mind this too much.)
~ Ann M. Martin
For it is in the passage-times that fall between ages—when the laws of an old world weaken and begin to fail and the laws of the new are not yet in force—that we are visited with the notion that time is malleable, that the future is up for shaping, that nothing is fixed: then we are brushed by that wing, and it is the only call we will get.
~ John Crowley
As for the family home, Tom dropped into the house on Seventeenth almost every day, walking in unannounced as if he still lived there. Even Debby told him she didn't think that was fair to Kay. "I wouldn't blame her for changing the locks," she said. "I own that house," Tom answered. "I can go there anytime I want.
~ Ann Rule
The experiential data, which, in the absence of more robust physical evidence, is the most important information that we have, suggests that abduction experiencers have been visited by some sort of "alien" intelligence which has impacted them physically and psychologically.
~ John E. Mack
At the end of May, when the return of summer brought her a renewal of strength, they met face to face for the first time; and from that time Robert Browning was included in the small list of privileged friends who were admitted to visit her in person.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My first baby looked neither new nor old. He was otherworldly, like a pure ray of intelligence, like an innocent visitor from a more benevolent planet.
~ Elizabeth Lesser