Eternal Quotes - Page 38

• For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.

  Paul Laffoley

  Atheist, Years, Agnostic

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  David Swanson

  War, Cities, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

  Amity Shlaes

  Law, Foundation, Majority

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any ability to control. That is contrary to the Plan of Salvation, and it is contrary to the justice and mercy of God. It's contrary to the whole teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which expresses the truth that by or through the power and mercy of Jesus Christ we will have the strength to do all things. That includes resisting temptation. That includes dealing with things that we're born with, including disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Teaching, Destiny

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further, men are that they might have joy. In the eternal perspective, same-gender activity will only bring sorrow and grief and the loss of eternal opportunities.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Husband, Grief, Loss

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Opportunity, Law, Land

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance that for whatever reason or reasons seems to apply right now in mortality, in this nano-second of our eternal existence.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Earth Life, Next, Reason

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• If I can keep myself worthy here, if I can be true to gospel commandments, if I can keep covenants that I have made, the blessings of exaltation and eternal life that Heavenly Father holds out to all of His children apply to me. Every blessing - including eternal marriage - is and will be mine in due course.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Father, Blessing

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

  Peter Kreeft

  Joy, Secret, Eternal Life

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• God existed before He made anything else, and He Himself was never made. God is eternal.

  Greg Koukl

  Made, God Exists

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what we today think of as libertarianism - conservatism, at least for me, had been defined by Jeffersonian credos like "the best governed are the least governed" and "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" that were very idealistic and romantic to a kid.

  Steve Erickson

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.

  Rick Warren

  Life Is, Eternal Life, Can Do

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.141, Zondervan

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• The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life.

  Rick Warren

  Soul, Important, Achieve

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, America, Inability

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I've often said why does God leave us here on earth, once we accept Christ, once we're in the family, why didn't he just kill us. Why leave us here? Well, because he's working on our character through these trials, these tribulations, we're learning to practice what we're going to do in heaven. So really, the kingdom mindset is actually the eternal mindset. It's not just about eternal life. Eternal life is getting ready for that.

  Rick Warren

  Character, Practice, Heaven

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• "Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.

  Roger E. Olson

  Reality, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Son, Matter, Doe

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Running, Heart, Order

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Self Confidence, Thinking, Two

  Source: souljourns.net

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• Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Comforting, News

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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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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• I think there's a faith formula in that verse: believe plus receive equals become. So I think believing's important, having intellectual agreement with Christian doctrine is important, but there has to be a time when we receive God's gift of grace - not that we've earned it or merit it or deserve it - but receive this free gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased on the cross for us.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Writing, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Believe, Fate

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

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