“When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?” ThinkingMenShouldHumansLawJusticePrinciplesConscienceConsequenceEternityThis LifeContradiction Author:William Wilberforce
“Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.” NeedsHumansHelpingMemoriesJusticeInformationDivinePaperEternityGuiltyWitnessMediocrePapersProsecutionInterrogationConciseInformersDivine Justice Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!” KnowsIdeasSoulSeemsDifferencesJusticeVisionLimitsEternityEnormousPurity Author:Elisabeth of Wied
“Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.” IfsNightJusticeMercyEternityShiningCloudsRefuseRainbow Author:Jeremy Taylor
“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.” MenSelfLawJusticeGreaterExpressionDisciplineEternalEternityDepthHeightMasteryWillpowerAbandonmentDominionSelf Mastery Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.” DoeDifferentFormJusticeEmotionBeautyParticularElementsEternalEternityAbsolutesSurfaceManifestationAbstractionTransitoryEternal BeautyDifferent Beauty Author:Charles Baudelaire
“And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!” MenKindMadeEnoughEarthEasySidesLinesJusticeEnemyHellProudEternityPolicePrisonNotionReasonableStomachWretchedServitudeInconvenientProfaneHuntedConvictsLaymanFelonsReasonable Man Book:The Diary of a Country Priest Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.” PeopleMayRememberHumanityJusticeLibertyElementsEternityPrejudiceErrorsDisappointmentObstaclesWelfareReignDelayAdvancingDiscouragementGeneral Welfare Author:Frederick Douglass
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” MenForcePeaceJusticeMilitaryProtectEternalEternityDawnConsiderationPatrioticResolutionCooperationFairnessEmergenciesUmpiresPeace And JusticePeace JusticeWin WinCooperation TeamworkEternal Peace Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.” LooksKindSoulMotherJusticeKnownHellSonJudgmentEternityAgreeVictimMovedRevengeMythologySatisfiedFlamesParadiseRejoiceCondemnationPsalmsClaretKind Thoughts Author:Anthony Mary Claret