Everlasting Quotes - Page 7

• Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Men, Soul

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• But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, History, Catholic

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.292

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• As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now.

  Rod Dreher

  Ideas, Desire, Limits

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• The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things,
  yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Character, Together

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.

  John Calvin

  Son, Despair, Doe

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• The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Marriage, Decision, Important

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• We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.

  Brian Andreas

  Beach, Fun, Hard Work

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• Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is a fire: do not let your heart be cold, but burn with faith and love. Your Lord is light: do not walk in darkness of mind, without reasoning or understanding, or without faith. Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Children, Love You

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• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Yoke, World

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

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• Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Challenges, Helping, Lord

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• Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

  Matthew Henry

  Jewels, World, Life Is

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.2920, Harper Collins

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• I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

  Mark Twain

  Together, May, Telephones

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• The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

  Herrick Johnson

  Morning, Night, Soul

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Age, Genius, Mixtures

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Animal, Creating, Bird

  "The Authority". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Plato, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

  Robert Herrick

  Punishment, Littles, Endure

  Robert Herrick, Tom Cain, Ruth Connolly (2013). “The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick”, p.202, Oxford University Press

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• The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Loss, Wrath, Evil

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.158

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• If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  David Levithan

  Reading, House, Romance

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• I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, War, Holiday

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 114, 1963.

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• The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Dark, Secret

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.278, Delphi Classics

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• I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Breathing, Miracle

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.68, Ivy Books

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• Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Voice, Moments

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ice, Over You, Enemy

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.156, Wordsworth Editions

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• Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.

  John Green

  People, Dumb, Stories

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