Present Life Quotes

42 quotes by 38 authors

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;… — Leo Tolstoy
Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His… — Gregory Palamas
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more… — Thomas a Kempis
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here… — Carl Jung
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which… — Leo Tolstoy
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of… — Billy Graham
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Gautama Buddha
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own… — Augustus Toplady
What you do in the presentâ€”by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,… — N. T. Wright
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important… — Anton Chekhov
For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven. — Randy Alcorn
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. — William Wilberforce
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill… — Charles Caleb Colton
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks… — Jimmy Santiago Baca
Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. — Thomas Dreier
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony. — Charles Fletcher Dole
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her. — Paule Marshall
...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were… — John Cassian

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