Quotes about Life

I answer that, As Augustine says (De Moribus Eccl. vi), "the soul needs to follow something in order to give birth to virtue: this something is God: if we follow Him we shall live aright.

The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.

Against this defect man was provided with a remedy in the tree of life; for its effect was to strengthen the force of the species against the weakness resulting from the admixture of extraneous nutriment.

When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.

Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give up and lose hope and change our system.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

I have had my fair share of nights out.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.