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• We who must die demand a miracle.
  How could the Eternal do a temporal act,
  The Infinite become a finite fact?
  Nothing can save us that is possible:
  We who must die demand a miracle.

  W. H. Auden

  Miracle, Demand, Facts

  W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?

  Jules Michelet

  Race, Years, Forever

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• The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Ignorance, Men

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• The eternal female draws us onward.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Female, Draws

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• That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.

  Gustav Mahler

  Christian, Men, Joy

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• I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Simple, Thinking, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2363, Library of Alexandria

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• Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Love Is, Essence, Violence

  Toyohiko Kagawa, Robert Elliott Speer (1931). “The Religion of Jesus”

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• Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Liberty, Defiance

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.

  Martin Luther

  Kissing, Acknowledge You, Feet

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• The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

  Mark Twain

  Country, Real, Watches

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

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• The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Barbecue, Vigilance, Eternal Vigilance

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• If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

  Tim Minchin

  People, Sound, Damnation

  "Tim Minchin: Mocking God in the heart of Texas" by Tim Minchin, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

  David Platt

  Pain, Light, Church

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• When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their greatest need is to be saved from eternal condemnation, and the more "practical" needs of this present age become trivial in comparison.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Age, Needs

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• All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Moving, Our Actions

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• That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Unchanging

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

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• Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person can ever make. I invited Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life and made a commitment to follow Him. God offers each of us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus by "confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). It is a wonderful and peaceful feeling to serve a God who loves me and cares about every detail of my life.

  R.A. Dickey

  Jesus, Believe, Commitment

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• In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had success in baseball and was very popular in school but all these things, which the world chases after, left me empty and unfulfilled. Through a series of trials and difficult times, the Lord opened my eyes to my sin and what would truly fulfill me. June 9, 2001, I received forgiveness and the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

  Luke Scott

  Baseball, Jesus, Eye

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• The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in heaven forever. I made that decision during spring training in 1973, asking Jesus to come into my heart as Lord and Savior.

  Gary Carter

  Baseball, Dream, Jesus

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• There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Rome, Law

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• Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Light, Ministers

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.22, Discovery House

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• God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

  Henry Martyn

  Pleasure

  Henry Martyn (1839). “Journals and letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D.”, p.150

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• The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

  Johannes Kepler

  Spring, Order, Fountain

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• Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Long, Important

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Deeds, Kind, Influence

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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