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chasms

«Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.»
«How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.»
«Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.»
«The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps»
«A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.»
«Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.»
«It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten foot jumps»
Author: American Proverb | Keywords: chasm, chasms, foot, jumps, leap
«Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,»