Mortals Quotes - Page 8

• You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

  Parmenides

  Heart, Opinion, Persuasive

  Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, "Against the Mathematicians", vii. 3,

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• God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

  Xenophanes

  God, Men, Body

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• There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

  James Dobson

  Stress, Reality, Hardship

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• There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

  Helen Fisher

  Sex, Romantic Love, Attachment

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• It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and suffering-which, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things out-and at once! But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 17:3).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Lying

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• It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Religious, Real, Understanding

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• In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

  Peter Brook

  Theatre, Bears, Influence

  Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people….Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Goal, People, Temples

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• Let us truly be a temple-attending and temple-loving people...We should not go only for our kindred dead, but also for the personal blessings of temple worship, for the sanctity and the safety that are within those hallowed and consecrated walls. As we attend the temple, we learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us make the temple, together with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Jesus, Wall, Sacrifice

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• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Past

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• An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Italian, Men, Two

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• Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

  Woodrow Wilson

  President, United States, Next

  "Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study". Book by Sigmund Freud and William Christian Bullitt, Jr., 1966.

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• However much faith to obey God we now have, we will need to strengthen it continually and keep it refreshed constantly. We can do that by deciding now to be more quick to obey and more determined to endure. Learning to start early and to be steady are the keys to spiritual preparation. Procrastination and inconsistency are its mortal enemies.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Spiritual, Procrastination, Keys

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• Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Endure

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• God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child. He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become. He wants you to know that you matter to Him.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Want, Matter

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• Let us be mindful of the foundational precepts our Heavenly Father has given to His children that will establish the basis of a rich and fruitful mortal life with promises of eternal happiness…. Brothers and sisters, diligently doing the things that matter most will lead us to the Savior of the world…. Let us make the changes necessary to refocus our lives on the sublime beauty of the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship—the path that leads always toward a life of meaning, gladness, and peace.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Christian, Brother, Children

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• Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained; when one nation threatens the security of another, it, too, becomes less secure; when we place the planet in mortal danger, we hazard the future of our own children as well as the children of our enemies.

  Forrest Church

  Children, Enemy, Suffering

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• Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.

  Nick Tosches

  Book, Passion, Unique

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• We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Demise, Hell

  George Berkeley (1843). “Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.461

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• Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Men, Use, May

  Marsilio Ficino (1975). “Liber I”, Shepheard-Walwyn Limited

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• When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he
  is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  History, Soul, Thank God

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• I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

  Edgar Degas

  Wife, Littles, Might

  "Degas: An Intimate Portrait (Methods of Work)". Book by Ambroise Vollard (1927) translated by Randolph T. Weaver (p. 64), 1986.

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• You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fashion, Utterance, Weak

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• However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brotherhood, May, Common

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