Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Weiss

All of nature is resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

Billy Graham

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Octavio Paz

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

Jim Morrison

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

Leo Tolstoy

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

Langston Hughes

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Paul Ricoeur

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Caleb Colton

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

Damien Hirst

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Henry Vaughan

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Mel Brooks

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Karl Kraus

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

Gregory Maguire

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

J. K. Rowling

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

J. K. Rowling

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.