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“A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.”

Thinking Difficult Novel Achieve Balance Eternal Contemporary

Author:Salman Rushdie

“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”

Thinking World Truth Time Views Eternal Regard Streams Time Management Tyrants Entering Devouring

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.”

Thinking Way Lying Easy Security Fields Eternal Glory Sells Salvation Pearls Steep Ascent

Book:Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford

Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford

“Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.”

World Giving Moments Light Water Eternal Speed Defined Captured Lilies Flux Pears Speed Of Light Monet Cezanne Water Lily

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.”

Men Children Soul Body Light Grows Powerful Greater Eternal Complexes Climbs Faculty Reincarnation No Fear Children Of Men

Book:THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

Source: THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

“Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.”

Men Spirit Answers Divine Source Eternal Universal Seeking Immortal

Author:Annie Besant

“The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy.”

Men Form Life Is Spirit Fire Divine Eternal Dust Sparks Atoms Brotherhood Grain Solidarity Absent Archangel Divine Life

Book:To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings

Source: To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

Life Moments Loses Eternal Illusion Existentialism Existential Life Has No Meaning

Book:Essays in Aesthetics

Source: Essays in Aesthetics

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

Art Modern Eternal Art Is Modern Art

Book:Egon Schiele: love and death

Source: Egon Schiele: love and death

“All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.”

Has Beens Beautiful Joy Given United Behinds Quality Birth Eternal Fruit Noble Decay Vitality

Author:Egon Schiele

“Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.”

Consciousness Clear Eternal Chaos Irony Agility

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.”

World Spirit Eternal Infinite Individuality Invisible Individualism Abyss Eternal Life Plenitude

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

Growth Change Eternal Eternity Immortal Perpetual Things Change Eternal Love Starting Anew

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.”

Heart May Joy Turns Names Given Teach Tears Praying Sorrow Quiet Eternal Dry Ecstasy Reverence Almighty Weeping Resignation Speechless Handkerchiefs Tears Of Sorrow

Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.”

Earth Spirit Eternal Highest Proof

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.”

Ifs Men Suffering Dies Speak Justice Rights Morality Eternal International Preservation Vigilance Transgression Eternal Vigilance Truth And Justice

Author:Haile Selassie

“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”

Eternal Concepts Abstract Fulfilled Utopia Eternal Peace

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.”

Practice Meditation Eternal Buddhist Bliss Meditating Meditation Practice Meditation Mind Finitude

Author:Sivananda

“God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.”

Self Eternal Satisfaction Self Contained

Author:Sivananda

“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.”

Men Doe Life Is Wise Eternal Direct Ultimate Bliss Hotel March Destination Domain Pilgrimage Inns Roadside

Author:Sivananda

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

Life Persons Has Beens Friendship Food Eternal Eternity Swear Gravy Eternal Friendship

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.”

Artist Eternal Ideals Nostalgia Bliss Parks Heavenly Surround Calmness National Parks Carrier Scenic

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”

Christ Accepting Virtue Grace Eternal Relation Saving Receiving Justification Eternal Life God's Grace Sanctification Justification By Faith

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”

People Believe Happens Able Certain I Believe Divine Eternal Determination Doctrine Eternal Life Decree Predestination

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.”

Persons Remember Joy Heaven Felt Simple Destiny Plans Eternal Busy Excuse Kingdoms Savior Stakes Exceed Discomfort God's Plan Sharing The Gospel

Author:Charles Stanley

“The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.”

People Years Stories Waiting Lord Modern Promise Eternal Patience Rewards Saint Decades Believer Scripture Biblical Abraham

Author:Charles Stanley

“When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.”

Persons Hands Differences Destiny Darkness Son Eternal Instruments Blow Kingdoms Realms Satan Making A Difference Transfers You Make A Difference

Author:Charles Stanley

“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”

Ifs Thinking Men Eternal Court Ruins Assured

Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.”

May Facts Reality Christ Doubt Birth Eternal Miracle Historical Casts Christmas Resurrection Ascension Historical Facts

Book:The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined

Source: The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined

“I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.”

Sports Enemy Eternal Traffic Liquor Uncompromising

Book:The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words

Source: The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

World Writing Real Artist Universe Imagination Eternal Shadow Thought Provoking Vegetables My Imagination Faint Hearted

Book:The Selected Poems of William Blake

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake

“The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.”

Heart Spirit Eternal Green Fruit Tongue Permit Marvelous Gracious Surpassing

Book:Johannes Tauler, Sermons

Source: Johannes Tauler, Sermons

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

“No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.”

Humans Heart Matter Eternal Originals Phrases Sentiments Yearning Gifted Human Heart Expressive

Book:Cinq Mars ...

Source: Cinq Mars ...

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

“As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Done Life Is Literature Friendship Our Lives Eternal Decided Pointless Friendship With God

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.”

Life Is Literature Struggle Eternal

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.”

Ifs Life Is Choices Literature Eternal Survival Eternal Life Our Choices

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.”

Way Mind Made Interesting Eternal Sunshine Texture Eternal Sunshine

Author:Gerard Way

“It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.”

Humans Suffering Chance Human Beings Eternal Hunger Aids Obligation Assistance

Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.”

Soul Life Is Taken Subjects Prove Eternal Eternity Ruins Eternal Life

Book:Spiritual Gifts Vol 1 & 2

Source: Spiritual Gifts Vol 1 & 2

“The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.”

Men Would Be Desire Christ Cases Conditions Mets Eternal Misery Depth Sinner Thrones Woe Unsatisfied

Author:Ellen G. White

“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.”

Love Suffering Love Is Waste Eternal

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”

Inspirational Doe Success Purpose Conditions Eternal Aim Stores Providence

Author:Thornton Wilder

“Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.”

Love Stills Seems Fall Peace Our Lives Worst Eternal God Love Hardship Falling Apart Finding Peace Eternal Love Overcoming Hardship

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”

Ifs Life Mean Death Dying Events Eternal Experience Eternity Infinite Eternal Life Live In The Present Duration Timelessness Events In Life

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.”

Facts Certain Holy Eternal Ghost Witness Significance Testimony Holy Ghost Personal Knowledge

Author:David A. Bednar

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”

May Lying Dies Strange Eternal

Book:THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_

Source: THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_

“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.”

“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.”

People World Heart Whole Desire Impossible Eternal Logic Wide Passages Marble Defiance Polished Passage Of Time

Author:Richard Russo