Quotes about Life

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.

Life, any life, would be well spent, under any conceivable conditions in bringing one human soul to know and love and serve God and His Son, and thereby securing for yourself at least one temple where your name and memory would be held for ever and for ever in affectionate praise — a regenerate heart in heaven. That fame will prove immortal, when all the poems and pyramids of earth have gone to dust.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

A Man's life of any worth is a continual allegory—and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life—a life like the scriptures, figurative…. Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative—Shakespeare led a life of Allegory: his works are the comments on it.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

The poetry of earth is never dead.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

So I offer my definition of theology: theology is the application of Scripture, by persons, to every area of life.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.