Present Life Quotes - Page 2

• Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Art, Past, Land

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.74, Best Books on

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• Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Proud, Danger

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her--separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans.

  Jennifer Egan

  Father, Sleep, Night

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.73, Anchor

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• If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Happiness, Years

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• But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Ignorance, Two

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.75, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His compassion He took our nature upon Himself. On Tabor He manifested it to His elect disciples clothed once again most brilliantly. He showed what we once were and what we shall become through Him in the age to come if we choose to live our present life, as far as possible, in accordance with His ways.

  Gregory Palamas

  Spiritual, Fall, Compassion

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• The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume".

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• How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, Suicidal

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• The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Views, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Penguin

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• Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Men, Age, Why Not

  Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

  Robert Byron

  Joy, Misery, Life Is

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• I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.

  Connor Franta

  Fashion, Keys, Play

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

  John Calvin

  Hatred, Sin, Should

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.75, Baker Books

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• When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

  John Calvin

  Heaven, Earth, May

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Men, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

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• It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Wish, Desire, Energy

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

  Georgia Harkness

  Life Is, Eternity, Existence

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• The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

  Albert Camus

  Heaven, Kind, Life Is

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Exercise, Men, Grace

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• If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Purpose, Guarantees

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.53, Rodale

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• You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Silence, Missing, Solitude

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Self, People

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

  John Dewey

  Preparation, Mere, Conceiving

  John Dewey (1967). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1893-1894. Early essays and The study of Ethics, a syllabus”, p.50, SIU Press

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