“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.” HumansIdeasRealBeliefGrowingPersonalityHigherIdealsEternityAbsolutesRaisesDevelopingThirstSuperhumanCoherence Author:Christian Lous Lange
“Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.” WayMeanIndividualAtheismHigherPleaseUniversalRelationAbsolutesNotesSuperiorsParadoxInferiorsJustifiedSubordinates Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)” CarTheorySourceHigherMoralityWorshipPerfectionAbsolutesSupremeDevoted Author:African Spir
“Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.” WorldWayGivingMeanLiteratureHigherHighestAbsolutesAffected Author:George Harrison
“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.” PeopleImportantNatureJusticeLibertyLandAchieveHigherAbsolutesHarmonyImportant ThingsStriveAspiration Book:Aldo Leopold's Southwest Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest
“How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.” IfsFormTermImaginationImpossibleAchieveHigherLimitsTasksAbsolutesForgivingAtheistAppealsNovelistsOutcomesEntityAtonementAbsolute Power Author:Ian Mcewan
“Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.” MenGivingHumansDifferentWould BeFormJesusChristHe ManHigherGiving UpWorshipJesus ChristAbsolutesManifestationNonsenseWorship GodWorship Jesus Book:Complete Works Source: Complete Works
“A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.” TwoMemoriesDecisionQualityHigherJudgmentPerfectionAbsolutesCalmShakesAviationPilotsPerilGreat Aviation Author:Mark Twain