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• Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

  Martin Luther

  Valentines Day, Love Is, Essence

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• The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Garden, Creating

  2003 The Journals: Volume 1.

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• Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.

  William Carlos Williams

  Spring, Naked, World

  1923 Spring and All, 'Spring and All'.

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• I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

  Shannon Hale

  Writing, Trying, Would Be

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• It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Father, Ideas

  Henrik Ibsen (1904). “Ghosts: An Enemy of the People : The Wild Duck”

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

  Jack London

  Dog, Laughter, Sadness

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Fleeting, Alive

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• Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.

  Sam Storms

  Knowing, Arrogant, Dimensions

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• Faith is lifeless unless you act on it. T.L. Osbourne says: “When the promises of God are believed and acted upon they become the power of God”. We can do all the things we have previously talked about about: desire, decision, prayer, speaking faith, seeing the answer, but if we don’t act our faith it is all to no avail.

  Phil Pringle

  Prayer, Decision, Promise

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• Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

  Beah Richards

  Culture, Racist, Theater

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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

  Gilbert Highet

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.64, Advaita Ashrama

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• History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.

  Frederic Harrison

  History, Mass, Organs

  Frederic Harrison (1862). “The Meaning of History: Two Lectures”, p.25

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• We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Eye, Adventure

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The dog wags its tail only at living things.
  A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
  is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
  even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
  things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
  or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

  Jean Craighead George

  Dog, Butterfly, Cat

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• Never stop doubting , never stop questioning, never ever assume you have all the answers. Having all the answers kills the question itself, renders it lifeless.....an d you too. Keep looking, keep seeking. Never, ever find it all. Because when you find it all, you deny that there is more. And there is never not more.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Doubt, Answers, Assuming

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 24, 2014

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• For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Flames, Heaven, Earth

  John Armstrong (1770). “The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq”

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• It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

  Andrew of Crete

  Feet, Tree, Coats

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• But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

  Martin Buber

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Spring, Science, Past

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• I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.

  George Verwer

  Christian, Believe, Enemy

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• The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Soul, Sublime

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• My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

  Gene Robinson

  Brother, Views, Tasks

  "Face to faith" by Gene Robinson, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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• During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.

  Ron Paul

  Country, War, Fighting

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