The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“Very often, when tides start turning, great gears start shifting, and gusting winds start blowing at the onset of a really wonderful… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“…Some timeless time later, dreamlike images began to emerge, the solar system, the Earth…the last to emerge was the sense of my… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the… — Henry R Van Til Copy Share Image
“You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma (I ask), what is the mind? If you mean the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Have nothing to do with godless and silly myths. Train yourself in godliness; for while bodily training is of some value,godliness is… — Bible Copy Share Image
“during the long period which elapsed between the Egyptian and the Babylonian servitudes, the hopes as well as fears of the Jews… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Yet, even focusing on this present life, disciples often queried the Buddha as to who is responsible for the habits, sufferings, and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“Hardship in our present life is an atonement for sins committed in our previous existence, or the education necessary to prepare for… — John Allyn Copy Share Image
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
