Eternal Quotes - Page 14

• None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.

  Joseph Alleine

  Running, Father, Believe

  Joseph Alleine (1700). “A Sure Guide to Heaven”, p.24, Digital Puritan Press

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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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• Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Fate, Humanity, Atheism

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.135, Library of Alexandria

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• Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?

  Howard Fineman

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  "Kerry – Bush & The Faith Factor" by Michael Cromartie, eppc.org.

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• Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Love Is, Essentials

  "Interview with Marianne Williamson About ‘A Course in Miracles’". Interview with Gabby Bernstein, gabbybernstein.com. September 5, 2013.

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• The only thing that helps me keep faith is to stay in the truth of love because when you love someone - or many people - you believe in them and you believe in who they are and what they can do...then your belief has to go to an eternal presence because when you really care for someone you can't bear the thought of never seeing them again. You want that mystery of eternity to be real.

  Dolores Hart

  Real, Believe, Love Is

  "Catching up with Mother Dolores Hart as the Hollywood star-turned-Catholic nun reflects on her book tour, the possibility of a movie and Pope Francis". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Mean, Doe

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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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• Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
  Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
  A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
  And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

  Emily Bronte

  Hope, Short Life, Night

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.109, The Floating Press

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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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• Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

  William James

  Mean, Cutting, Order

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

  Aristotle

  Knowledge, Unqualified, Eternity

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1799, Princeton University Press

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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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• Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Energy, Delight, Body

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.111, Pearson Education

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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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• Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Glimpse, Causes

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

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• Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

  George Santayana

  Men, Soul, Vision

  'Little Essays' (1920) 'Ideal Immortality'

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• I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Death, Religion, Looks

  Jimmy Carter (1998). “Conversations with Carter”, p.55, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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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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