Quotes about Perpetual
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct.
- Thomas Jefferson
The reason there are so many casualties among believers in spiritual warfare is that we have lost sight of the fact that we are in a perpetual state of warfare, which demands constant alertness. And so we let down our guards. We open ourselves to attack. We forget that we are warriors, not tourists, in God's kingdom on earth.
- Tony Evans
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
- Joseph Addison
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
- Abbie Hoffman
Love is ever new because it never groweth old.
- St. Augustine
Be anxious for nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Is this what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense, which implies an ongoing state. It's the life of perpetual anxiety that Paul wanted to address. The Lucado Revised Translation reads, Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst. The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.
- Max Lucado
So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.
- St. Augustine
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.
- Charles Hodge
Change is the universal experience. Thou art thyself undergoing a perpetual transformation and, in some sort, decay: aye and the whole Universe as well.
- Marcus Aurelius
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
- Milan Kundera