Sentences with phrase «words upon the lips»

Endeavoring to explain these words upon the lips of such a man as Mark Twain, one can not say that Mark Twain had a melancholy temperament, for he made the whole world laugh.

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And sometimes it happens that they meet in an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic liturgy; and then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter.

What kind of thinking can a reasonable, intelligent person use to justify this kind of character assassination upon someone they hardly even know and had never had a hard word pass from my lips to theirs?

As Dr. Moffatt says: «Charis had been long upon the lips of men, and always... it had been one of the shining words that serve the world.

Of Charles Gore it is recorded that almost the last words heard from his lips were «transcendent glory: «58 perhaps the theologian's unconscious mind turned to familiar topics, or perhaps the lover of God looked at last upon the face of Him in whom he had so long hoped and believed.