This Life Quotes - Page 29

• The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as Absolute, as Infinite, as Personal, while it may never in this life be able to fathom the full meaning of these sublime ideas.

  George C. Lorimer

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 267), 1895.

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• This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Names, Vision

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 28, 2012

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• Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

  John Fletcher

  Sweet, Night, Delight

  John Fletcher, “Melancholy”

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• The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

  Alan Bennett

  Sunday, People, Majority

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.

  John Calvin

  Hate, Blessing, Effort

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.72, Baker Books

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• I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Might, Enjoy, Wells

  "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!

  John Frusciante

  Kids, Evil, Dolls

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• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

  Conor Oberst

  Loneliness, Sleep, Thinking

  "Song: "Poison Oak" ("I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning ")". January 25, 2005.

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• God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

  Dan Simmons

  Life, Waiting, Found

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• No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

  Jose Saramago

  Good Night, Dream, Desire

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• Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Fall, Achievement, Life Is

  Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Frederick E. Crowe, Robert M. Doran, Lonergan Research Institute (1993). “Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection”, p.220, University of Toronto Press

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• There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves you best. If you systematically apply to the art that you create the aggression of the world that turned you towards art in the first place; if you, in turn, become the aggressor towards your canvas, the thing that you're doing; if you, in turn, work your will upon this thing that you want - you will then cause a dissatisfaction in this life that you create.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Purpose, World

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• Do you think that your sin is hidden away? Do you think that men will never know it? Well, you should remember that God knows it already. And you should remember, second, that sin continued in will inevitably come to light. Usually it will be exposed in this life. Certainly it will be exposed when you stand before God and God's record books are opened. That which is whispered in a corner shall be shouted from a housetop. God will bring every secret thing to judgment, we are told. What warning to our hearts!

  John R. Rice

  Book, Heart, Men

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• Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Life, Running, Law

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.51

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• Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Men, Age, Why Not

  Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Mother, Spiritual

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• I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.

  D. M. Turner

  Littles, Needs, Immortality

  Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.

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• We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

  Jessica Zafra

  Fate

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• At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Divine Justice, Ideas

  Alexander Pope, Rosemary Cowler (1986). “The prose works of Alexander Pope: The major works, 1725-1744”

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• It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.

  Brother Lawrence

  Jesus, Humble, Paradise

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• What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

  Thomas Brooks

  Dream, Pain, Shadow

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Remembrance

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• Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this life, but whom I've met inwardly, teachers from other eras - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Rama

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• As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Light

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