Quotes about Living

without prophecy, without divine revelation or vision, people will cast off all restraint. They will run wild because they have no guidance—no vision. The Word of God—His law—provides vision and guidance for living, and those who follow it are blessed. All people need a vision to sustain them in life.

The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.