Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. — Thomas Dreier 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
“The proper concern of a primary school is not education in a narrow sense, and still less preparation for later life, but… — George Dennison Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my faith is to bring me hope without fear. This is not only beneficial for the life to come,… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together… — Charles Fletcher Dole Copy Share Image
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand… — Augustus Toplady 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
For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And… — David Sedaris 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
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win- What? for ourselves, who know not if… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“For this we must believe: that the mind is never seriously aroused to desire and ponder the life to come unless it… — John Calvin 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
I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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… — Anonymous 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
“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
“But it is interesting to notice that, while the soul is the meeting-point of the elements of our being in this present… — G.H. Pember Copy Share Image
But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I know not now what and how I shall be; if there is an essential, absolute difference between my future and… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
“9. Retribution[FN#220] in the Past, the Present, and the Future Life. Then a question suggests itself: If there be no soul that… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“4. Life Consists in Conflict. Life consists in conflict. So long as man remains a social animal he cannot live in isolation.… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
“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
What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
![“But it is interesting to notice that, while the soul is the meeting-point of the elements of our being in this present life, the spirit will be the ruling power in our resurrection state. For the first man Adam was made a living soul, but the last Adam a quickening Spirit;[151] and that which is…” quote by G.H. Pember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c4b/g-h-pember-21155_life_but-it-is-interesting-to-notice-that-whi_2232434.jpg)
![“9. Retribution[FN#220] in the Past, the Present, and the Future Life. Then a question suggests itself: If there be no soul that survives body (as shown in the preceding chapter), who will receive the retributions of our actions in the present life? To answer this question, we have to restate our…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e50/kaiten-nukariya-793_future-life_9-retribution-fn-220-in-the-past-the-pre_890454.jpg)
![“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed…” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c6/leo-tolstoy-55_accountability_not-in-order-to-justify-but-simply-in-or_623047.jpg)
