Quotes About Life

Observing the Sabbath, we affirm: "God is the center and source of our lives. He is the beginning, the middle, and the end of our existence." We trust God to provide and care for us.

Prayer Lord, I have spent much of my life running from pain and loss, medicating my pain and quickly moving on to the next project––the new urgent demand. I ask for the grace to embrace all of life—the joys and the sorrows, the deaths and the births, the old and the new. In Jesus' name, amen.

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present. It requires, however, going back in order to go forward. This takes us to the very heart of spirituality and discipleship in the family of God—breaking free from the destructive sinful patterns of our pasts to live the life of love God intends.

You are lovable. You are good. It is so good that you exist.

Maturity in life is when someone is living joyfully within their God-given limits.

el camino a la vida es a través de la muerte y resurrección por la crucifixión.

Døde normer kan ikke analyseres væk, men kun gennem den anormale kærlighedserfaring relativeres og gøres tilgængelig for forandringer. På denne måde sker befrielsen af indre trang, som ikke tager sig betalt med døden - en kærlighed, der identificerer sig med det, der vil leve. Og alligevel er det hvert menneskes egen hemmelighed, hvor langt livssvinget rækker.

Det gælder om at blive fuldt og helt identisk med intensiteten i det udtrykskrævende liv. Alt det, der lever i os, ønsker at blive medinddraget.

Mange menneskers liv er kun henvisninger til det mulige. Trangen forbliver symbolsk, trykket reelt. Tryk avler angst, og angst indsnævrer livet. Det indo-europæiske ord 'angh' betyder snæver. Angst er snæverhed, som vi lader os trykke ned af.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Rational fears keep you alive, irrational fears keep you from living.

Look! Life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

It both sustains and kills—like a God.

Look ... to go through life and call it yours -- your life -- you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'...

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Creativity becomes a way of life. This then is the opportunity and invitation: little bets provide a powerful vehicle to approach life and work in a new way.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Gabriel Tardes's remark that "life is a search for the impossible via the useless.

This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching idea: that it is the fate of Europeans to develop life and forms of life according to and alongside the Christian definitions of life and forms of life.

Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor things grow stronger, the danger posed by the main thing is contained; then climbing higher in the minor things means advancing in the main thing.