Quotes about Life

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Anger, The spring of all life's horror.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

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The men of old times had little sense;/If you called them fools you wouldn't be far wrong./They invented songs, and all the sweetness of music,/To perform at feasts, banquets, and celebrations;/But no one thought of using/Songs and stringed instruments/To banish the bitterness and pain of life.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..