Quotes about Permanence
Finally, the perpetuity of the Law appears in God's writing it in the hearts of His people at their new birth.
- AW Pink
Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.
- Samuel Rutherford
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
- Marianne Williamson
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
- John Oates
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
- Samuel Johnson
The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away and become nothing.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
- Aristotle
The present state is short and transitory; but our state in the other world, is everlasting.
- Jonathan Edwards
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
- Graham Greene
Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever.
- Graham Greene
All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
- RC Sproul