Eternal Quotes - Page 17

• The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

  Bhagat Singh

  Soul, Humanity, May

  Bhagat Singh, Bhagat (2010). “WOF : Bhagat Singh”, p.52, Penguin Books India

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• Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

  Matt Salmon

  Religious, Community, Should

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• I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

  Judith Martin

  Principles, Different, Culture

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• Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

  Rachel Cusk

  Reality, Negative, Might

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Block

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• The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Running, Father, Loss

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• Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

  Carl Jung

  Needs, Spirit, Language

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Jesus, Blessing, Doors

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• The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.

  John Gerstner

  Jesus, Reality, Punishment

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• Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

  Richard Baxter

  Teaching, Life Is Short, Soul

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.122

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• Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?

  Lactantius

  Sex, Needs, Immortal

  Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods”, p.21

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• ... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Father, Thinking, Hair

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• God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

  Martin Luther

  Doe, Purpose, Pieces

  Martin Luther (2005). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.28, RDMc Publishing

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• The eternal feminine draws us on high.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Feminine, Femininity

  "Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832.

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• Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Change, Immortality, Proof

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• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Wall, Revenge

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• It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

  Moliere

  Hatred, Humanity, Twenties

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• I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, School, Play

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• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Office

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

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• Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?

  Edward Everett

  Travel, Ocean, Heart

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• And thus we rust Life's iron chain
  Degraded and alone:
  And some men curse, and some men weep,
  And some men make no moan:
  But God's eternal Laws are kind
  And break the heart of stone

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Animal, Thinking

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• His virtues walked their narrow round,
  Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
  And sure the Eternal Master found
  The single talent well employed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Void, Talent, Virtue

  Samuel Johnson (1816). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life”, p.109

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• The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Past, Punishment, Lust

  Dante Alighieri (1995). “Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.49, Indiana University Press

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• Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Design, Peculiar, May

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