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“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.”

World Ends Problem Might Earth Asks Heaven Bits Saint Saving Faithful Gates Peter No Problem Sticky Saint Peter

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.”

Years Ends Hands Earth Christ Thousand All Things Kingdoms Destroyed Satan Thousand Years Chained

Book:The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann

Source: The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann

“Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.”

Thinking Humans May Ends Facts Earth Creatures Significant Someday

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.”

Ends Earth Christian Used Spirit Desire Turns Choices United Lord Grace Cutting Direct Orthodox Adam Forbidden Deceived Forefathers Cfs Free Choice

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.”

People Ends Home Earth Nations Christ Church Missions Witness Home Base

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.”

World Way Ends Earth Church Company End Of The World Pilgrim

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.”

People Ifs World Ends Problem Earth Wish Social Common Resources International Heritage Ongoing Social Problems

Author:Jacque Fresco

“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”

Men Ends Earth Animal Cutting Tree Rocks Destruction Environmental Streams Formulas Agriculture Nature Of Man Negation Short Cuts Panacea

Author:Louis Bromfield

“The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.”

World Ends Whole Earth Nations Sea Mankind Wind Glory Flow Regions Divides New World Tides Swelling Thames

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.”

Should Ends Self Earth Chance Failing Achieve Regret Confidence Equal Intellectual Should Have Permit Assurance Equilibrium Self Assurance

Author:Paul Cezanne

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.”

War Ends Earth Women Enlightenment Assuming Cruelty Oppression

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Eye Earth Christian Given Heaven Christ Can Do Brother All Things Weak Lifts Elders End Of The World

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.”

“We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it, in ways we've never had to do before. We now have the job of forging our own evolutionary destiny, and being prime agents of the process of evolution here on Earth.”

Way Inspirational Ends Earth Jobs Process Walks Destiny Evolution Agents Prime Forging

Author:Tom Atlee

“You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.”

Needs Ends Earth Adventure Climbs Everest Doorstep Great Adventure

Author:Bear Grylls

“A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies — it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Earth Song Found Five Middle Battle Army Tone Goodbye Saying Goodbye Dead Ends Middle Earth

Author:Billy Boyd

“Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable - sun, world, God.”

Men World Long Ends Earth Night Time Sun Eternal Rounds Stable Arrows

Author:Jean Giono

“We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had.”

Knows Years Looks Persons Ends Whole Facts Earth Jesus Tvs Lows Seasons Horrible Nerves Economist Profile Materialistic Days Of The Year Bling Materialistic Person

Author:Chris Rock

“There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.”

Ifs Needs Should Mind Children Ends Earth Stars Common Teach Support Baby Healthy Worship Blow Climbs Customs Sentiments Obscure Apocalypse Clay Healthy Mind

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!”

Years Littles Has Beens Ends Earth Waiting Billions Advise

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.”

Giving Ends Reality Earth Next Vision Planets Ready Balance Safe Vote Blue Slavery Green Eras Fuel Leap Fossils Emerging Fossil Fuel Abolishing Slavery

Author:Elizabeth May

“We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.”

Ends Earth Heaven Black Magic Birth Devil Tools Logic Conformity Traits Resorts Black Magic

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“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.”

Ends Earth Heaven Mass Universal Impulse Flames Appetite Wisest Lifeless Insipid Propagation

Book:The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq

Source: The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq

“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.”

Source: Carlyle Reader

“These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.”

“But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.”

I Can Ends Done Running Earth Moon Tasks Green Corners Bows Soar Green Earth

Author:John Milton

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.”

Ifs Men Doe Ends Earth Stars Differences Sun Dog Eternity

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.”

Men Ends Earth Fighting Causes Water Hurt Lord Sea Holy Mountain Hatred Notes Prophet Quarrels Knowledge Of God True Knowledge

Author:Maimonides

“When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I. What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.”

World Ends Earth Powerful Virtue Clear Testimony Indication Love And Respect

Author:Giordano Bruno

“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”

Mind Said Ends Earth Speak Grows Causes Water Fire Air Grew Equal And Love Height Length One Time Strife Boundless Breadth Declaring Another Time

Author:Empedocles

“The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.”

Ends Bigs Earth Air Safe Village Telephones Transport

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.”

“Connect with all the passions people have - for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.”

People World May Ends Earth Passion Next Community Willing Products Pride

Author:Patrick Dixon

“No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.”

Persons Art Ends Matter Earth Literature Psychology Taste Insight Refining Sharpening True Education

Author:John Cowper Powys

“And then the dear Lord will take us to the new earth, surrounded by the new Heaven, and the holy New Jerusalem will come down from God out of Heaven. Then we will have an end of pain and sorrow and crying and death. All these, thank God, will be forever done! And then God Himself will wipe away our tears.”

Ends Done Earth Pain Heaven Lord Forever Cry Tears Sorrow Holy Dear Gods Will Thank God Wipe Jerusalem New Earth Pain And Sorrow Dear Lord

Book:Tears in Heaven

Source: Tears in Heaven

“The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.”

Ifs Men Giving May Children Ends Earth Christian Lasts Universe Stars Grows Century Regard Our Children Tired Ships Worms Jumping Adventurous Harbour Jumping Off

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, betrayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.”

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader