Signs Of Life Quotes - Page 2

• Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Life, Opposites, Water

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• Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

  Walker Percy

  Hatred, Library, World

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Winter, Waiting, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.413, Scholastic Inc.

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• One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, when Saul the persecutor was converted by a special miracle, the sign given of his conversion was this: "Behold he prayeth." Prayer is the breath of the soul. Just as breathing is the sign of life, prayer is the sign of the life of the soul.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Christian, Prayer, Book

  "Sin and Its Consequences".

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• The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Hands, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2549, Manonmani Publishers

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• I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Wind, Rivers, White

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.39, Penguin

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• As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mother, Baby

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