"Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a……" — Josef Pieper
"Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity."
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29 Quotes by Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper has 29 quotes on this site.
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Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
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Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
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To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
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Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The…
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The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which…
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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to…
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If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a…
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Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean…
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Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest…
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The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to…
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If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have…
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More Eternity Quotes
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one of 1,859 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
— William Barclay
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call…
— Drew Barrymore
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms…
— William Blake
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
— William Blake
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
— William Blake
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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