A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory like a thunderstorm and we all go through it together.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom pride and conditional love things may look good for a while but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us while the storm did not abate we agreed to trust to God Our Lord and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success took everybody by storm came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so life goes on.

Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

You see I had been riding with the storm clouds and had come to earth as rain and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

It is not light that we need but fire it is not the gentle shower but thunder. We need the storm the whirlwind and the earthquake.

After a storm comes a calm.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine deep relationship with Jesus Christ which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.