“Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.” FeelsTryingLightGoodnessYogaEternityBhakti Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity.” CountryJesusEnjoyChristExistenceKindnessEventsBirthGoodnessJesus ChristMercyEternityCreatorThanksEnlightenedStationsRenderingConfiding Author:John Dickinson
“Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.” HumansMeanEndsGoodnessConsequenceAnd LoveEternitySelfishnessBlissContemplationDivinityAttributesConstructsIdenticalOmnipotentIneffable Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“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.” MenChildrenCertainAmountOffersGoodnessEternalEternityEmbraceVanityEternal Life Author:Anna Friel
“In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.” HeartTogetherSufferingWaitingBrokenGoodnessEternityCelebrateUncertaintyRighteousReignGraciousBack TogetherMighty God Author:Paula Rinehart
“Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.” TwoSoulUnderstandingArmsGoodnessAnd LoveEternityBreathsEmbraceDepthSaintDelightHeightLengthUnderstanding And Love Author:Bernard of Clairvaux
“Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.” LifeSongEvilTeachingHolyGoodnessEternalEternityShiningSakeStrikesSpellsLightningUnending Author:Jon Anderson
“May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."” IfsLifeGivingHumansMaySaidTwoDivineGoodnessEternalOptimismEternityCalmTriumphDivinityNeglectPessimismUnlimitedEternal LifeEditorialsDiscerningUnshakableCitationsUnshakable Faith Author:Richard L. Evans