Best Thousand Years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann

“You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.”

Years Stills Two Christian Christ Numbers Teaching Thousand Conscious Structure Thinker Thousand Years Pastor Theologian

Author:Pope Francis

“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.”

People Knows Want Writing Trying Years Humans Heart Has Beens Book Natural Secret Thousand Preserves Contribution Thousand Years Human Heart Natural History

Author:August Strindberg

“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?”

Ifs Men Years May Order Next Asks Plans Periods Thousand Draws Safety Reasonable Thousand Years Definite Next Day

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”

“It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.”

Years Made Age Known Heard Thousand Thousand Years Pyramids Pharaohs Khufu

Author:Michael Tsarion

“It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.”

Ifs Thinking Years Hard Heaven Cities Thousand Eternity Busy Clouds Wounds Ridiculous Unhappy Bored Heavenly Thousand Years Millennium Harps

Author:David Berg

“From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.”

Years Light Able Science Produce Genius Thousand Labour Thousand Years Sublime Newton

Author:Justus von Liebig

“The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.”

Years Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke

“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”

Years Two Spirit Christianity Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.”

Years May Tomorrow Thousand Yesterday Thousand Years

Book:The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.”

“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”

World Giving Trying Years Dies Winning Failing Tears Failure Honor Thousand Glory Prize Cried Thousand Years

Book:The Building of the City Beautiful

Source: The Building of the City Beautiful

“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?”

Thinking Years Two Christian Religion Christianity Lord Promise Thousand Thousand Years

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.”

Years Found Growth Tree Thousand Thirds Circles Ruins Temples Magnificent Thousand Years Redwoods

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.”

People Years Ideas Earth Stars Alive Thousand Eternity Architecture Astronomy Plot Thousand Years Moses Geometry Pyramids Calendars Most Awesome

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.”

Men Years Book Motivational Today Earth Left Alive Thousand Yesterday Thinker Thousand Years Great Thinkers

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”

Ifs Years May Age Fool Thousand Clean Wit Thousand Years Wipe Slate

Book:King of Thorns

Source: King of Thorns

“The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.”

People Years Has Beens Two Reason Hate Church Sin Terrible Thousand Majors Commit Reason Why Thousand Years Terrible Things

Author:Michael Coren

“The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.”

Years Heart Doe Waiting Tomorrow Thousand Yesterday Kingdoms Thousand Years Kingdom Of God

Book:The Vision of Nietzsche

Source: The Vision of Nietzsche

“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.”

Years Two Soul Facts Happens Hate Fighting Nations Taught Couple Thousand Ocean Years Ago Crosses Bridges Streams Continents Thousand Years Constructs Two Nations

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.”

Should Years Humans Form Order Thousand Ten Human Life Forty Thousand Years Deviate

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.”

Years Two Lasts Keys Thousand Missionary Ministry Thousand Years Flexibility

Book:For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel

Source: For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel

“Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.”