sursum corda

How to use sursum corda in a sentence

• Do you remember the passage where Burke alludes to the old warning of the Church—sursum corda?

  "Stops" | Paul Allardyce

• It calls to the reader, as the early Christian litanies did to the worshipper, sursum corda, Raise your thoughts!

  Sonnets and Canzonets | A. Bronson Alcott

• And it means also sursum corda (Lift up your hearts) whenever the difficulties and sorrows of the desert seem too much.

  Mater Christi | Mother St. Paul

• On the plate of George Bancroft, the late historian, a chubby cherub bears a panel on which is the motto, sursum corda.

  American Book-Plates | Charles Dexter Allen

• The general reader will never forgive such portraits as that of the elder Barbier, who, after shouting, 'sursum corda!

  Critical Studies | Ouida