Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.
He must be lightning slow.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.