
“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 603)
XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 603)
“The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.”
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)
"The Death of Me", p. 150
Awareness (1992)
Context: One of your American authors put it so well. He said awakening is the death of your belief in injustice and tragedy. The end of the world for a caterpillar is a butterfly for the master. Death is resurrection. We're talking not about some resurrection that will happen but about one that is happening right now. If you would die to the past, if you would die to every minute, you would be the person who is fully alive, because a fully alive person is one who is full of death. We're always dying to things. We're always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and resurrected at every moment. The mystics, saints, and others make great efforts to wake people up. If they don't wake up, they're always going to have these other minor ills like hunger, wars, and violence. The greatest evil is sleeping people, ignorant people.
“He who fears not death fears not a threat.”
Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces.
Don Gomès, act II, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)
“Trust to God to weave your little thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.”
As quoted in The Way To Win : Showing How To Succeed In Life (1887) by John Thomas Dale, p. 89
Context: I record the conviction that in one way or another, special individual help is given to every creature to endure to the end. It has been my own experience, that always when suffering, whether mental or bodily, approached the point where further endurance appeared impossible, the pulse of it began to ebb and a lull ensued.
You are tender-hearted, and you want to be true, and are trying to be; learn these two things: Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. Do not be in a hurry, but be diligent. Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. Trust to God to weave your little thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet. When God's people are able and willing thus to labor and wait, remember that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; the grand harvest of the ages shall come to its reaping, and the day shall broaden itself to a thousand years, and the thousand years shall show themselves as a perfect and finished day.
“I'm that guy who just trusts a little too much.”
Survivor - Meet Rupert and Laura http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haW82fU6dtE, YouTube