Wet Eyes Quotes

• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

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  Mary Karr

  Laughter   Book   Reading  

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• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

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  James A. Baldwin

  Heart   Eye   Humanity  

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• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

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  Seneca the Younger

  Mother   Sweet   War  

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• Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

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  Phineas Fletcher

  Peace   Fear   Eye  

  'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

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• Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

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  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian   Letting Go   Strong  

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1997). “Pastor to Pastor: Tackling the Problems of Ministry”, p.99, Kregel Publications

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• There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.

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  Charles Grandison Finney

  Eye   Godly   Revival  

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