Eternal Quotes - page 4

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. (Tadao Ando)
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. View quote
Alva Myrdal
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. View quote
Josephine Hart
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. View quote
Eben Alexander
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus. View quote
Cornelia Funke
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part. View quote
Lactantius
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. View quote
Hu Shih
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God. (Armstrong Williams)
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. View quote
Edmund Waller
A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths. View quote
Charles de Lint
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. View quote
Dante Alighieri
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. View quote
John Adams
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. View quote
Andrew Jackson
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. (George Eliot)
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given. View quote
James Frey
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die. View quote
José Rizal
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life. View quote
André Malraux