“But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God… — James Finley Copy Share Image
My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“I have given it much thought. There seems to be only one explanation for why we are here. Why our souls choose… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“It is a moment, and it is eternity. It is the centre of the universe and it is the universe itself. The… — Edith Nesbit Copy Share Image
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we… — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture,"… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
