“The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.” MadeBookCharacterChallengesEternalScreensMade ItScreenwriters Author:David Benioff
“You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.” NeedsMindCharacterValuesOrderClearEternalAppreciateAtonementEnergeticExalted Author:Ellen G. White
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves... the same as all Gods have done before you.” KnowsMenFirstsDoneCharacterHeavenSecretPrinciplesWiseEternalCertaintyEternal LifeExaltedTrue GodCharacter Of God Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.” Has BeensCharacterFeelingsLawJoyLyingSpeakNaturalSeaHigherSorrowEternalTraitsTreacherousHigher PowerDeceitful Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.” CharacterDesireEvilForceDevelopmentEternalAddNobleBitterTemptationImmortalityBlissAspirationSublimeAttainmentGood CharacterEvil ThoughtsBitter Words Author:Sivananda
“I've often said why does God leave us here on earth, once we accept Christ, once we're in the family, why didn't he just kill us. Why leave us here? Well, because he's working on our character through these trials, these tribulations, we're learning to practice what we're going to do in heaven. So really, the kingdom mindset is actually the eternal mindset. It's not just about eternal life. Eternal life is getting ready for that.” WellsDoeSaidCharacterEarthLife IsHeavenChristAcceptingPracticeReadyEternalMindsetTrialsKingdomsEternal LifeTribulation Author:Rick Warren
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” MenMindCharacterPassionEternalConstitutionVirtuousFettersControlling Power Book:The works of ... Edmund Burke Source: The works of ... Edmund Burke
“Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.” GivingHas BeensEndsCharacterTurnsFictionPersonalityEternalSurpriseThemeUnexpectedVariationPredictableIncorrigible Book:The humanist in the bathtub Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.” Has BeensDifferentCharacterAmericaJesusNationsSourceKingsEternalUniqueUnderstoodScaryGodlyCivics Author:John Ashcroft