Quotes about Permanence

For we have been there in the books and out of the books—and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

God has a way of removing what looks permanent by showing us an explosion of His goodness.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.