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“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.”

Men Kind Children Doe Play Mother Song Wife Brother Drink Husband Mountain Eternal Highest Rivers Mad Wine Notes Fountain Counting Enchanted Flutes Mad Men Taverns

Author:Trevor Hall

“Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.”

Men Children Doe Eternal Adulthood

Author:Nelson Rodrigues

“Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.”

Children Suffering Lost Grows Growing Up Youth Eternal Blessed Innocence Immortal Mortality Womanhood Manhood Infant Arrested Harshness

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)

“I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results.”

Children Has Beens War Matter Age Sides Results Brain Blood Terrible Conflict Eternal Species Details Practicals Relate Dragons Incapable Publishers Dissatisfied Comprehending Shelley

Author:Mary Abigail Dodge

“I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.”

World Children Felt Eternal Weight Shoulders Vulnerability Weary New Beginnings Loaded Frail Fragility

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“As children of God, knowing of His great love and His ultimate knowledge of what is best for our eternal welfare, we trust in Him. The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and faith means trust.”

Firsts Mean Children Jesus Christ Lord Principles Knowing Eternal Jesus Christ Ultimate Welfare God Knows Great Love Child Of God Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.”

Men Children Certain Amount Offers Goodness Eternal Eternity Embrace Vanity Eternal Life

Author:Anna Friel

“Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.”

“The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.”

World Children Littles Moments Perfect Path Grace Dying Bears Eternal My Friends Perfection Imperfect Eternal Life Transgression

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“Know that you are God's beautiful child, always in God's hands. Accept God... accept God's protection... there is really no problem to fear. Know that you are not the clay garment. Know that you are not the self-centered nature which governs your life needlessly. Know that you are the God-centered nature, The Kingdom of God within. The Indwelling Christ. Eternal and indestructible. Identify with the real you.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?”

Ifs Men Children Answers Eternal My Children

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.”

Children I Can Reason Purpose Father Lines Higher Eternal Administration No Reason Our Father Progression Advancing

Author:B. H. Roberts

“Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.”

People May Children Has Beens Different Problem Literature Deals Fiction Possibility Eternal Our Children Science Fiction Genre Exploration

Author:David Brin

“As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.”

Firsts Humans Children Seems Spiritual Individual Parent Human Beings Walks Views Steps Clear Imagine Eternal Appetite First Steps Steps Forward Eagerness

Book:Grace Notes

Source: Grace Notes

“I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.”

Believe Children Used Hell Teacher Eternal Abuse Priests Child Abuse Exaggeration

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.”

Ifs Giving May Children War Wanted Teacher Ignorance Battle Eternal Prejudice Greed Fractions Going To War

Author:James Hilton

“I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.”

Thinking Children Stories Young Jesus Stuff Forget Hell Eternal Punishment Flames Basics Crucifixion

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“If I can keep myself worthy here, if I can be true to gospel commandments, if I can keep covenants that I have made, the blessings of exaltation and eternal life that Heavenly Father holds out to all of His children apply to me. Every blessing - including eternal marriage - is and will be mine in due course.”

Ifs Children Made I Can Courses Father Mines Blessing Eternal Including Worthy Dues Being True Heavenly Commandments Eternal Life Covenant Heavenly Father Exaltation Eternal Marriage

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.”

World Years May Children Evil Influence Mankind Blessing Eternal Wide Reaching Volume Neglected Blast Plunge Blight Perdition

Author:George Muller

“Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.”

Men Firsts Children Together Given Parent Taught Eternal Men And Women Patterns Adam Association Righteous Adam And Eve Complementary Righteous Man Eternal Marriage

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“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

“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.”

“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.”

Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms

“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.”

“If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children.”

Ifs Looks Children Light Together Joy Father Grows United Generations Eternal Tradition Our Children Our Family Glorious Righteous Units Everlasting Brighter Reap Lds Family Unit

Author:L. Tom Perry

“Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.”

Children Important Father Prayer Teaching Praying Eternal Draws Our Children Fundamentals

Author:L. Tom Perry

“That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”

Children Enough Eternal Dare

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty.”

“Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.”

“There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his liturgy. "There's an established rite, Your Grace. Marriage must be entered into with solemnity and consideration. I don't know that I can rush--" "Ten minutes. One thousand guineas." The liturgy snapped closed. "Then again, what do a few extra minutes signify to an eternal God?" He beckoned Amelia with a fluttering, papery hand. "Make haste, child. You're about to be married.”

Source: One Dance with a Duke

“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”

Inspirational Children Littles Law Loss Grief Events Kings Eternal Size Grieving Proportion Crowns Dolls

Book:The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

Source: The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's

“How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the jewels of her life, as gifts from the God of heaven, who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up in true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.”

Ifs World Children Would Be Beautiful Mother Father Heaven Lord Eternal Affection Jewels Admonition True Affection

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?”

Ifs Should Children Littles Might Earth Fall Parent Sun Sea Feet Objects Eternal Lows Sight Defense Burning

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.”

“I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.”

Thinking Children Mother Lost Imagine Eternal Links Family Friends Mother And Child

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”

Children Made Given Heaven Parent Consciousness Eternal Raises Crowns Woe

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.”

Way Firsts Children Reason Used Spirit Crazy Despair Eternal Aids Curse Bitterness Professors Heroism Wrong Way Spats Gryffindor Mcgonagall Professor Mcgonagall

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.”

Giving Children Young Eternal Glimpse Young Children

Book:Letters to a Young Teacher

Source: Letters to a Young Teacher

“Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.”

Men Mind Children Lasts Life Is Evil Dark Grace Wonderful Dying Eternal Rewards Revenge Fantastic Bliss Thrown Villain Superstitions Lightning Tribes Twisted Equanimity Barbaric Evil God

Author:Gore Vidal

“What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.”

Men Life Heart Children Understanding Teacher Sorrow Eternal Laughter Stones Rainbow Leafs Beggar

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved

“Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be 'rare' exceptions, 'the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lord's injunction, 'Thou shalt not . . . kill, nor do anything like unto it'”

“Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?”

Ifs Children Death Dies Choices Given Eternal Suicide

Author:Saint Augustine

“From time to time, ask yourself these questions: "Am I ready to meet my Maker?" "Am I worthy of all the blessings He has in store for His faithful children?" "Have I received my endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple?" "Have I remained faithful to my covenants?" "Have I qualified for the greatest of all God's blessings-the blessing of eternal life."”

Children Asks Ready Blessing Eternal Worthy Stores Faithful Temples Makers Qualified Eternal Life Covenant Endowment Ordinances

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner, Delgado and others call a conditioning of the behavior. The child is brought up by Christians - then he is conditioned in one way, he becomes a Christian.”

People Way Children Christian Spirituality Behavior Eternal One Way Conditioning Pavlov Skinner

Author:Rajneesh

“Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Though we cannot understand "the meaning of all things," we do "know that God loveth his children" because He has said, "Behold, this is my work and my glory-to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." Heavenly Father is able to accomplish these two great goals-the immortality and eternal life of man-because He is a God of creation and compassion. Creating and being compassionate are two objectives that contribute to our Heavenly Father's perfect happiness. Creating and being compassionate are two activities that we as His spirit children can and should emulate.”

“The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.”