Eternal Quotes - Page 5

• Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.

  Corliss Lamont

  Mean, Men, Soul

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• Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

  Lucretius

  Fall, Atheism, Atoms

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Real, Media

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• If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.

  Joseph McCabe

  Real, Drama, Men

  "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.

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• The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Soul, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

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• I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Choices, Atheism

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• Many of you have loved ones who are wandering off the path to eternal life. You wonder what more you can do to bring them back. You can depend on the Lord to draw closer to them as you serve Him in faith.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Path, Wonder, Loved Ones

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• What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Cheer, Lying

  Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.

  L. Tom Perry

  Keys, Eternal Happiness

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• Eternal God,
  lead me now
  out of the familiar setting
  of my doubts and fears,
  beyond my pride
  and my need to be secure
  into a strange and graceful ease
  with my true proportions
  and with yours;
  that in boundless silence
  I may grow
  strong enough to endure
  and flexible enough to share
  your grace.

  Ted Loder

  Strong, Pride, Silence

  Ted Loder “Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle”, Augsburg Books

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• I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Forever, Tears

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• The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal

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• We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Pride, Perfection

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• Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Men, Worship, Response

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• When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.

  Neva Coyle

  Live Life, Who I Am, Differences

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• A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.

  Frank Sinatra

  Strong, Race, Class

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• On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and
  truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion.
  More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy
  things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal
  life.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Hands, Opposites, Understanding

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• The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Redemption, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  Thomas De Quincey (1854). “De Quincey's works”, p.125

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• All rights and laws are still transmitted,
  Like an eternal sickness to the race.
  [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte
  Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, Race, Law

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• If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Fire, Jewels

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• The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Opportunity, Punishment, Missing

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• The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

  Ouida

  Spring, Night, Years

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.197

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• Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Spring, Reflection

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• O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Death, Nurse, Slumber

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.215

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