Quotes about Life

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.

Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God's … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn't point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.

For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the covenant with death (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life which shall swallow up and conquer life-devouring death. ~ p.14