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• The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

  Criss Jami

  Matter, Christ, Feels

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.27, Criss Jami

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• A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

  Joy Browne

  Life Changing, Mean, Dedication

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• I'll trust in God's unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.

  Martin Luther

  Soul And Body, Forever, Passing Away

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• Where the world ends
  The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
  Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
  The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
  The roots of the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fire, Roots, Miracle

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.122, Hayes Barton Press

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• The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

  William James

  Attention, Made, Aspect

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.68, Harvard University Press

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• Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

  Mari Evans

  People, Magic, Singing

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• I do believe that God's word is infallible, unchanging, perfect.

  John Shimkus

  Believe, Perfect, Infallible

  "God will save us from climate change: U.S. Representative" by Cathal Kelly, www.thestar.com. November 10, 2010.

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• The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

  Jamais Cascio

  Future, Ideas, Work Out

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• What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

  Owen D. Young

  Moving, Heart, New Day

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• Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

  Tom Robbins

  Growing Up, Nice, Mean

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.254, Bantam

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• From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Mean, Views

  "Buddhism: Between Desire and Emptiness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Surely there could not be any doctrine more strongly expressed in the scriptures than the Lord’s unchanging commandments and their connection to our happiness and well-being as individuals, as families, and as a society.

  L. Tom Perry

  Connections, Doctrine, Scripture

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• God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessing, World, Moral

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• To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

  Ayn Rand

  Vision, Youth, Ends

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.689, Penguin

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• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Past, Joy

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• Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation

  Kiersten White

  Beautiful, Powerful, Animal

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• I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.

  Kiersten White

  Strong, Stars, Sky

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• The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Thinking, Simplicity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

  Oswald Spengler

  Running, Animal, Men

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• The roofs are shining from the rain,
  The sparrows twitter as they fly,
  And with a windy April grace
  The little clouds go by.
  Yet the back yards are bare and brown
  With only one unchanging tree-
  I could not be so sure of Spring
  Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Rain, Clouds

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them. When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Men, Names

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• School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

  Myla Goldberg

  School, Vowels, Schedules

  Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

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• The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Sky, Life And Death, Meditation

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• She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

  Wallace Stevens

  Death, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

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• Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Believe, Heart

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