Quotes about Perishes

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

When the object perishes, the pneuma that animated it is reabsorbed into the logos as a whole. This process of destruction and reintegration happens to individual objects at every moment.

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

The Holy Spirit is God eternally giving himself; like a never-ending spring he pours forth nothing less than himself. In view of this ceaseless gift, we come to see the limitations of all that perishes, the folly of the consumerist mindset. We begin to understand why the quest for novelty leaves us unsatisfied and wanting. Are we not looking for an eternal gift? For the spring that will never run dry?

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.