Quotes related to 1 Peter 1:24-25
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.
— Washington Irving
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.
— Dante Alighieri
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
— Randy Alcorn
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
— DH Lawrence
God is more lasting than the white man.
— Malcolm X
This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.
— St. Augustine
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
— John Donne
All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
— Marcus Aurelius
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
— William James
Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.
— Benny Hinn
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
— Henry Ward Beecher