Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 209.
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 397.
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher
My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 244
“The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia
Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 25 (p. 209)
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Holy Dimension", p. 333
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: He whose soul is charged with awareness of God earns his inner livelihood by a passionate desire to pour his life into the eternal wells of love. … We do not live for our own sake. Life would be preposterous if not for the love it confers.
Faith implies no denial of evil, no disregard of danger, no whitewashing of the abominable. He whose heart is given to faith is mindful of the obstructive and awry, of the sinister and pernicious. It is God's strange dominion over both good and evil on which he relies. … Faith is not a mechanical insurance but a dynamic, personal act, flowing between the heart of man and the love of God.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
What is Art? (1897)
Context: The good is the everlasting, the pinnacle of our life. … life is striving towards the good, toward God. The good is the most basic idea … an idea not definable by reason … yet is the postulate from which all else follows. But the beautiful … is just that which is pleasing. The idea of beauty is not an alignment to the good, but is its opposite, because for most part, the good aids in our victory over our predilections, while beauty is the motive of our predilections. The more we succumb to beauty, the further we are displaced from the good.... the usual response is that there exists a moral and spiritual beauty … we mean simply the good. Spiritual beauty or the good, generally not only does not coincide with the typical meaning of beauty, it is its opposite.
David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 80