Quotes about Passage
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
- Samuel Johnson
The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.
- Henri Nouwen
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
- Anonymous
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
- Anonymous
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
- Frank Herbert
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
- Frank Herbert
But forasmuch as the Passage was wonderful narrow ... it showed me that none could enter into Life, but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left this wicked World behind them; for here was only room for Body and Soul, but not for Body and Soul, and Sin.
- John Bunyan
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
- John Bunyan
If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.
- Norman Vincent Peale
No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.
- David Jeremiah
Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.
- Fr. Richard Rohr