"Sursum corda" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sursum Corda: Heave ahead: Here's luck. Art and Blue Heaven, April and God's Larks. Green reeds and the sky-scattering river. A ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... is, by what he thinks profound, and it isn't—arrives at the right thing; and lo! a woman, with her understanding heart and her hard, good sense, goes and does that wise thing humbly, without a word. SURSUM CORDA!—Cheer up, loving heart!" shouted he, like the roar of a lion in ecstasies; "you have done a masterstroke—without Oldfield, or ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... with the rest. He read the Comfortable Words; the English equivalent for Sursum Corda with the Easter Preface; then another prayer; and finally rehearsed the story of the Institution of the Most Holy Sacrament, though without any blessing of the bread and wine, at least by any action, since none such was ordered in the new Prayer-Book. Then he immediately received the bread ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson |
