Edifice Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Edifice
Gods have done a lot in the past, will do a lot in the future, but are always strangely absent from the present — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability. — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us… — Rebecca St. James Copy Share Image
“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr.,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this… — Vhils Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex'… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
