Quotes about Living
Theology must have the character of a living procession.
- Karl Barth
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
- Thomas Monson
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.
- David Livingstone
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
- Walt Whitman
There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
- Nicole Kidman
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
- John Henry Newman
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
- Andrew Jackson