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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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• 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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• 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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• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

  Josh McDowell

  Pain, Loneliness, Perfect

  Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.69, Baker Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

  Carl Jung

  Memories, Mean, Personality

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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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• Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

  Charles Fletcher Dole

  Vision, Working Together, Golden

  Charles Fletcher Dole (1906). “The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it”

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• The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

  Francis Harold Cook

  Heaven, Losing, Life Is

  Francis Harold Cook (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays”

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• She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sri Lanka, Mind, Saws

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.

  William Howard Taft

  President, Remember, Truth Is

  Correspondence in 1925. "1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs - The Election that Changed the Country". Book by James Chace, 2004.

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• Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

  Josiah Royce

  Hints, Glimpse, Life Is

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Soul, Body

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• ...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were it not for the superabundant numbers of the poor, the needy, and the sick... As long as this inequity rages in the world, these good works will be necessary and valuable to anyone practicing them and they shall yield the reward of an everlasting inheritance to the man of good heart and concerned will.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Heart, Men

  "Conferences".

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

  Paule Marshall

  Children, Past, Light

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.97, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.

  Thomas Dreier

  Coins, Littles, Belief

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• I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Clouds, Sight, Air

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• The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Men, Serenity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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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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• When we are present, life is also present.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Life Is

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• If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eternity, Live In The Present, Unending

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