“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.” MenMindNightCertainNamesVirtueOur LivesFameGloryPraiseEndureVery GoodCeaseGood ManPosterityStimulus Book:Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero Source: Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.” BelieveDoeReasonGodDiesWonderOur LivesSourceCeaseSteadyDeitiesRadiance Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.” IfsNeedsMeanLife IsResultsEffortLordWorryOur LivesModernAccomplishCeaseTensionProductiveEfficiencyCriteriaPursuedAccompanySabbathMeaninglessnessPossessivenessHumdrum Author:Marva Dawn