Best eternal & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.”

Firsts Believe Jesus Christ Simple Lord Steps Principles Despair Eternal Jesus Christ Focused First Steps Molecules Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss and thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first." Thus is it with us all. We must work out our salvation and exaltation by coming to this earth. Man must be born into mortality and live and die that he may continue in his progress toward eternal life and exaltation.”

Men Life Firsts May Earth Dies Christ Born Grace Progress Son Eternal Salvation Work Out Mortality Eternal Life Exaltation

Author:Alma P Burton

“Who does not believe his first passion eternal?”

Firsts Believe Doe Passion Eternal

Book:The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

“The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.”

Firsts Dream Answers Streets Cold Eternal Rain Ghost Wander Lifts Dreamer Palms Inquisitive

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.”

Source: Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index

“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Years Firsts Book Soul Father Individual Path Generations Sacrifice Mankind Danger Eternal Relation Paid Ill Teeth Guilty Recognition Merit Infidelity Best Year Encyclopedia

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.”

People Firsts Soul Months Eternal Supreme Immortality Dedicated Supreme Being

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.”

People Want Firsts Real Shows Song Existence Atheism Media Tvs Eternal Dresses Blame Entertainment Positive Atheism Tv Shows Costumes Frenzy Fandoms

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.”

Should Firsts Might Law Beauty Eternal

Author:William Butler Yeats

“There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.”

Firsts Kind May Said Two Age Speak Wish Genius Eternal Highest Speaks Out

Book:The North American Review

Source: The North American Review

“Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!”

Men World Firsts Beautiful Stars Moral Destiny Talent Morality Eternal Intellect Planes Visible Gleam

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love Divine, and with the eternal heraldry And signature of God Almighty stamp'd From first to last; this ray of sacred light, This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and in the night of time Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow; And evermore beseeching men With tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.”

“Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.”

Way Firsts Ends Pleasure Journey Eternal Expectations Shame Vain Anticipation Crowns Fruition

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“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

“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.”

Knows Men Firsts Done Character Heaven Secret Principles Wise Eternal Certainty Eternal Life Exalted True God Character Of God

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!”

“To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.”

Firsts Two Eye Action Together Religion Duty Morality Eternal Bible Connected Mutual Divides Destroying Our Actions Dealings

Author:Laurence Sterne

“It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.”

Men Firsts Heaven Stars Eternal Prosperity Tall Crowded Workhouses

Author:Theodore Parker

“I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.”

Thinking Knows Men World Life Giving Firsts Might Found Secret Race Vision Power Wonderful Mystery Eternal Sacred Jealous Formulas Eternal Life Cursed Mystery Of Life Delving

Author:William Hurlbut

“Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is longer than Forever. God is more than you imagine. God is the energy you call imagination. God is creation. God is first thought. And God is last experience. And God is everything in between.”

Knows Inspirational Firsts Lasts Energy Imagination Religious Forever Imagine Creation Eternal

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.”

Needs Firsts May God Joy Fall Felt Love You Creation Son Please Eternal Salvation Sake Dawn Limbs Your Son

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.”

“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

“God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.”

Needs Firsts Kind Doe Done Action Father Bears Eternal Expectations Flow Deeds Our Actions Deeds Done

Book:The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.”

“Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First Presidency has encouraged members, especially youth and young single adults, to emphasize family history work and ordinances for their own family names or the names of ancestors of their ward and stake members. We need to be connected to both our roots and branches. The thought of being associated in the eternal realm is indeed glorious.”

“My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.”

“The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.”

Mind Firsts Self Body Life Is Spirit Energy Eternal Transformation Heavy Mastery Reincarnation Gross Eternal Life Self Mastery

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.”

Firsts Humans Art Energy Human Beings Subjects Eternal Delight Hieroglyphics

Book:The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form

Source: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form

“Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.”

People Firsts Joy Taken Son Ambition Eternal First Time Avarice Restlessness

Author:Michael Horton

“While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.”

Firsts Real Soul Sin Principles Virtue Eternal Rewards Profit Mortals Merit Good Work Mortal Sin

Book:The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

“O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.”

Firsts Stills Night Ability Eternal Beats Weakness Eternity Sight Raised Beloved Rays Dread Sigh Blazing Ability To See

Author:Saint Augustine

“Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.”

Firsts Lasts Pleasure Air Eternal Singing Silent Sweetness Soar Larks

Book:The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso

Source: The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.”

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.”

“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

“Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.”

“heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.”

Way Firsts Persons Earth Lasts Heaven Wise Eternal Remains Endure Abandon Fulfilled Everlasting Wise Person

Author:Laozi

“During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.”

World Firsts Long Helping Reality Eternal Photography Cameras Photograph Decades Drawing Stable Exposure Static Unshakable Camera Obscura

Book:The Language of New Media

Source: The Language of New Media

“Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.”

Men World Firsts Believe Two States Liberty Vision Principles Democracy Equal Eternal Mass Blessed Spokes Locked Disputes Loving God Whim Democracies Have Opium

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.”

Thinking Firsts Two Important Self Realizing Steps Eternal Infinite Unity Self Confidence First Steps

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?”

Knows Should Firsts Father Jesus Perfect One Thing Brother Honor Holy Eternal And Love Ghost Welfare Elders Our Father Holy Ghost Undone Redeemer

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“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

“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

“Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”

Firsts Jobs Life Is Dies Steps Eternal Mouths Gun Pushing First Steps Eternal Life Waiter Fight Club Book

Book:Fight Club: A Novel

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.”

Way Firsts Young Eternal Being Old

Book:Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

“In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation

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