Quotes about Life
The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
— Henri Nouwen
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.
— Henri Nouwen
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
— Henry David Thoreau
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
— Henry David Thoreau
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
— Henry David Thoreau
I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
— Henry David Thoreau
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
— Henry David Thoreau
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
— Henry David Thoreau
How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].
— Henry David Thoreau
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
— Henry Ward Beecher