Perishing Quotes
47 quotes by 44 authors
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from…
— Anaxagoras
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In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread…
— John Ruskin
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Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.
— K.P. Yohannan
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To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
— Sylvester Stallone
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You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires…
— Isaac Newton
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It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.
— William Booth
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If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing…
— Clark Blaise
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I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till…
— Henry Grattan Guinness
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Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost,…
— Oswald J. Smith
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Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest…
— Marcus Aurelius
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This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one…
— Mark Twain
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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of…
— Plato
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of…
— Ralph Adams Cram
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Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I…
— Maria Woodworth-Etter
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