Infinite Quotes - Page 37

• Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the Lord, in his infinite love and wisdom, may see fit to inflict upon the person, we must avoid judgment. Regardless of those circumstances and the Lord's divinely imposed punishment, followers of Christ are to be loving and compassionate to those who are hurt by the act of suicide.

  Brent L. Top

  Suicide, Hurt, Punishment

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• Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

  John Stuart Mill

  Past, Infinite Time, Space

  Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism "The Utility of Religion" (1874)

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• He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

  Robert L. Millet

  Pain, Sacrifice, Treasure

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• Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

  Adyashanti

  Empty, Boxes, Absolutes

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• The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

  Kenneth Burke

  Fall, Cutting, Men

  Kenneth Burke (1984). “Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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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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• To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.

  Mother Teresa

  Moments, Given

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• The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Self, Expression, Space

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• What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Grief, Angel, Men

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• In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Children, Thinking, World

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

  Jean Rostand

  Desire, Stills

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• All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Heaven, Degrees, World

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.2, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.

  Catherine Marshall

  Christian, Disappointment, Father

  Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

  Charles Colson

  Self, Capacity, Humans

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• So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Growth, Becoming, Illusion

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• Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

  John Updike

  Home, Sunshine, Simple

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• When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Opportunity, Ideas

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• The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Clubs, Gatekeepers

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• You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's not like you've cracked it and it's finished and it's done, because it can always be improved. It can always be changed. There is no right answer, so you can drive yourself crazy with just the expanse of infinite possibilities when it comes to writing.

  Dan Mazer

  Morning, Crazy, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

  James Mangold

  Cutting, Long, Digital

  Source: collider.com

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• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' (2008) and 'An American Crime' (2007). I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  Candice Accola

  Thinking, Amy, Woods

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

  Atul Gawande

  Successful, Next Week, Broken

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• As we begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channels open and we access the infinite vitality of life force.

  Shakti Gawain

  Appreciate, Vitality, Force

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• Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

  Peter Drucker

  Numbers, Spontaneity, Possibility

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