Healing Tent Evangelist

Famous quotes containing the words healing, tent and/or evangelist:

    “War has always been the great wisdom of all those spirits who have grown too inward, too deep; its healing power lies even in the wound.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The river’s tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf
    Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
    Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
    Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
    The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
    Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
    Or other testimony of summer nights.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)