“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.” MightTurnsPassionDifficultBeautyMoralFashionPeriodsElementsEternalEternityDifficultyDetermineRelativeQuantity Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!” LongRealitySpiritualityVoiceCryDangerHigherDisciplineTrainingEternityDifficultyCome UpGods WillUrgesMidstInvitesStrifeInvaluableSemblance Author:William James
“A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.” SoulWholeLightSpiritFoundStrongHeavenSecretSeaWindEternityDifficultyWaveSnowAtmosphereIsolationResolutionAlmightyMultitudesPassing AwaySweepingFlakesSecret PlacesMighty Wind Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses
“The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.” ReasonAbleEvilAtheismCreationEternityDifficultyAtheistScholarHypothesisInevitabilityMisguidedRecourse Author:Voltaire
“We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.” ThinkingMindHumansDoneMomentsPastRealizingHuman BeingsEternityDifficultyEnormousPresent MomentOur FuturePreciseYour FuturePast Present And FutureAlways Thinking Author:Paulo Coelho
“I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.” WorldSufferingSpaceObjectsThis WorldThousandWeakEternityDifficultyAccustomed Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini
“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?” YearsMindIdeasScienceTermNatureHistoryMillionsForeverDoubtHard WorkRevolutionBearsEternalMouthsEternityDifficultyInstantProportionRemarkableRejectsCyclesContemplatingDefinitePettyHesitationChronicles Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope
“When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.” LifeFacesDifficultLossSituationStepsEternityDifficultyDifficult SituationsPersonal Loss Author:Paulo Coelho
“Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.” ThinkingWayMayDifferentStudyEmotionalFineEternityDifficultyNobleAidsContactAcademicPassiveJust Listen Book:An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943