Quotes about End

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.

It is no coincidence that the first two chapters of the Bible (Genesis 1—2) begin with the creation of the heavens and the earth and the last two chapters (Revelation 21—22) begin with the re-creation of the heavens and the earth. All

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

But disappointment in pleasure is a completely different thing. While pain can often be seen as a means to a greater end, pleasure is seen as an end in itself. And when pleasure has run its course, a sense of despondency can creep into one's soul that may often lead to self-destruction. Pain can often be temporary, but disappointment in pleasure gives rise to emptiness—not just for a moment, but for life.

But it was not to be.

Death was irreversible, he suspected

I have suggested creation is a work guaranteed by the king. The king is the one charged to order and preserve creation, and thus the return to chaos implicitly announces the failure of kingship and its end.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.