Messenger
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A messenger or courier is a person or thing that carries a message.
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- A king does not kill messengers.
- Alexander the Great, as quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
- Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!
- Enmerkar, in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). [1]
- The messenger runs like a wild ram and flies like a falcon. He leaves in the morning and returns already at dusk, like small birds at dawn.
- Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). [2]
- The messenger gave heed to the words of his king. He journeyed by the starry night, and by day he travelled with Utu of heaven. Where and to whom will he carry the important message of Inana with its stinging tone? He brought it up into the Zubi mountains, he descended with it from the Zubi mountains. Susa and the land of Anšan humbly saluted Inana like tiny mice. In the great mountain ranges, the teeming multitudes grovelled in the dust for her. He traversed five mountains, six mountains, seven mountains. He lifted his eyes as he approached Aratta. He stepped joyfully into the courtyard of Aratta, he made known the authority of his king. Openly he spoke out the words in his heart. The messenger transmitted the message to the lord of Aratta.
- Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). [3]
- The true Cynic must know that he is sent as a Messenger from God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are in error; looking for those where they are not to be found, nor ever bethinking themselves where they are.
- Epictetus Golden Sayings of Epictetus, 113, as translated by Hastings Crossley.
- The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.
- Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals.
- Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story (2008) by Diane Ackerman.
- The cooling breeze is the breath of heaven, a veritable messenger of life, carrying healing on its wings.
- John Harvey Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI: Good Health Publishing Company, 1903, p. 412. Full text online.
- Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: and when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying. They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen. They say unto him. He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
- Gospel of Matthews 21 : 33-41
- Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
- Mary Oliver, Winter Hours (1999), "Sand Dabs, Six"
- And cite for them the example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it. Where We sent two to them, but they disbelieved in them, so We supported them with a third one, thus they said: "We are messengers to you." They replied: "You are but human beings like us, and the Almighty did not send down anything, you are only telling lies." They said: "Our Lord knows that we have been sent to you. And we are only required to give a clear delivery." They replied: "We have welcomed you better than you deserve. If you do not cease, we will stone you, and you will receive a painful retribution from us!" They said: "Keep your welcome with you, for you have been reminded. Indeed, you are transgressing people." And a man came running from the farthest part of the city, saying: "O my people, follow the messengers. Follow those who do not ask you for any wage, and are guided. And why should I not serve the One who created me, and to Him is your ultimate return? Shall I take gods besides Him? If the Almighty intends any harm for me, their intercession cannot help me in the least, nor can they save me. Then I would be clearly astray." "I have believed in your Lord, so listen to me!" It was said: "Enter Paradise." He said "Oh, how I wish my people only knew! Of what my Lord has forgiven me, and made me of the honoured ones." And We did not send down upon his people after him soldiers from the sky; for there was no need to send them down.
- Quran, Chapter 36 (Yasin) : 13-28
- I well believe it, to unwilling ears; none love the messenger who brings bad news.
- Sophocles, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
- The heart of God through his creation stirs,
We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers
That die to live again, — his messengers,
To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours.- Celia Thaxter, "Rockweeds" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 21 (March 1868), p. 269.
- The messengers of thy Ka are come for thee; the messengers of thy father are come for thee; the messengers of Rē are come for thee.
Go after thy sun; purify thyself, thy bones are female-falcons, goddesses, who are in heaven, that thou mayest be at the side of the god.- Text in the Pyramid of Unas (d. c. 2345 BC), Utterance 214.
- Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
To speed between thee and the source of power.- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, New Thought Pastels (1913), Affirm.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
[edit]- Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- He who lives to God rests in his Redeemer's love, and is trying to get rid of his old nature — to him every sorrow, every bereavement, every pain, will come charged with blessings, and death itself will be no longer the "king of terrors," but the messenger of grace.
- Frederick William Robertson, p. 119.
