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“'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress. The end, as St. Paul says, is everlasting life (cf. Rom. 6:22). 'And this is eternal life, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent' (Jn. 17:3).”

“I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?”

Ifs Men Believe Wells Use Seems Might I Believe Ignorance Creatures Eternal Prejudice Horrible Witness Fallen Saviour Countenance

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.”

Years Two Facts Seems Might Lying Morning Months Eternal Seasons Lifetime Naked Sand Lazy Sunshine Los Angeles Slips Pacific Nuance

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.”

Way May Moments Might Past Realizing Eternal Series Present Moment

Author:John Ashbery

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Might Turns Passion Difficult Beauty Moral Fashion Periods Elements Eternal Eternity Difficulty Determine Relative Quantity

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.”

Men Might Choices Accepting Trouble Atheism Dangerous Source Eternal Infinite Satisfaction Positive Atheism Wide Believer Revelations Expenses Selection Presumptuous Irises

Author:Gore Vidal

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

Should Firsts Might Law Beauty Eternal

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”

Reality Might Eternal Negative

Book:Outline: A Novel

Source: Outline: A Novel

“God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party!”

Thinking Might Christian Joy Spirit Father Enjoy Inspiring Party Music Son Holy Eternal Infinite Celebrate Holy Spirit Intensity Father Son

Author:Sam Storms

“Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.”

Knows May Matter Facts Might Time Process Term Eternal Aspect Eternity Finals Paradise Nevertheless Repetition Expulsion

Book:Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

“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

“The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we are to serve eternal life.”

Ifs Might Christian Dies Process Eternal Messages Crosses Environmental Willingness Sustainability Our Love Eternal Life Unborn Ecological Ecosystems Continuation Continuation Of Life

Author:Wes Jackson

“If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.”

People Ifs Life Might Eternal Damnation Seize The Day Seizing

Author:Kate Atkinson

“The eternal Son of God became the sinless son of Man that the sinful sons of men might become the beloved sons of God.”

Men Might Son Eternal Beloved Beloved Son

Author:Robert Clarke

“I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.”

Thinking Humans May Art Feelings Might Film Human Beings Eternal Universal Labels

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"”

“Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.”

World Humans Soul Reality Might Running Imagination Differences Fiction Eternal Essence Riding Day To Day Human Soul Donkey

Author:Chad Harbach

“No matter what you're facing in your life, what obstacles you might have, and what you feel your limitations might be, there's something inside you that's eternal, that is filled with wisdom and potential and possibility. There's an inner power inside you to affect an amazing level of healing, to help you find who you really are, to help you walk your unique path up the mountain, to help you move towards manifesting your fullest potential”

Feels Matter Helping Might Moving Walks Levels Healing Path Possibility Mountain Eternal Unique No Matter What Filled Obstacles Limitation Manifest Inner Power

Author:Brad Willis

“A recent Pew Study revealed that 70% of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions lead to eternal life. Some people might think that "surely the statistics among evangelical Christians is different." Not by much.”

People Thinking Different Might Christian Religious Study Eternal Statistics Eternal Life Evangelical Affiliation

Author:Robert Jeffress

“There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further, men are that they might have joy. In the eternal perspective, same-gender activity will only bring sorrow and grief and the loss of eternal opportunities.”

Men Might Joy Next Opportunity Loss Grief Wife Perspective Sorrow Activity Husband Eternal Including Gender Units Fullness Posterity Next Life Family Unit

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Different Reality Might Lasts Christ Church Eternal Standards Enthusiasm Vanity Temples Live By Resurrection Risen

Author:Hank Hanegraaff

“It's not enough to look for the truth, however a noble journey that might be. [...] You must be able to say "yes" to what you see. [...] He is the yeasayer who could look upon evil, disease and suffering, all the worst incarnations of the Eternal No, and not fall insane. He is the great-souled one who can affirm the truth of the Universe.”

Looks Enough Might Able Suffering Fall Universe Evil Journey Worst Disease Eternal Noble Insane Be You Incarnation

Author:David Zindell

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

Love Might Space Existence Ready Eternal Romantic Deny Lost Love Romantic Love Time And Space

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?”

Source: Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light

“I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?”

Said Might Known Objects Wall Fool Eternal Red Burning Urges Iron Pits Bosoms Garments Eternal Peace

Book:The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More

Source: The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More

“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

“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)”

World Giving Might Lost Speak Voice Chance Our Lives Eternal Ears Embrace Wave Stranger Awake Relax Live By Cracks Yield Defence Chances Are Blink Inhuman Vigilance Eyelids Chinks

Book:Foe: A Novel

Source: Foe: A Novel

“It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again. To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.”

Thinking Knows Wells Ideas Dream Might Pain Religion Order Wish Sleep Crime Judging Demand Eternal Sick Slave Horrible Being True Torture Waking Our Thoughts Our Dreams Convicts

Author:Christopher Hitchens