A Quote by Joseph Glanvill

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

Joseph Glanvill

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Joseph Glanvill
English - Writer
1636 - 1680

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

William Shakespeare

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Jean Cocteau

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Michael Ondaatje

A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

Laozi

With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.

Deborah Harkness

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

J. G. Holland

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

Cooper Edens

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

Maxine Hong Kingston

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.

Mary Wollstonecraft

When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.

Monica Johnson

There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.

Anna Kingsford

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

Rumi

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.