Quotes About Threshold

Death is not an ending. It is a transformation. Death is the threshold of this life. Beyond it is something else, some mystery.

I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who lived in them, for the sublime pleasure of disappearing. But not until now, at the threshold of this perilous summer, have I ever turned to storybooks for instruction.

On the Threshold by Professor Pezhman Mosleh is an artistic treasure for a treasured human being (Dr. Irvin Yalom).

Dedication   Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Pray and Live Chapter 3 - At the Threshold of God's Time Chapter 4 - Where God Dwells Chapter 5 - All the Trees of the Forest Sing for Joy Chapter 6 - At Home in the Psalms Afterword - My Life with the Psalms Acknowledgments Scripture Index   About the Author Also by N. T. Wright Credits Copyright About the Publisher Chapter 1

doing. Was doing now. So Jesus seems to have been standing at the threshold

Does it hurt to bite your tongue so hard?" he asked with faux concern. Holly didn't miss a beat. "I'm in a car with you--I clearly have a high pain threshold

I'm going to check the world's best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn't even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

It made me understand that we don't always get to decide what we let in and what we keep out. A door is just an idea.

Honor the space between no longer and not yet.

Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.

Over the past few years I have visited a great many residential homes, at home and abroad, and each time I step over the threshold I feel an anticipatory lowering of the spirits, a kind of muted dejection.

When is a horror one horror too many? When have you had enough?

What we find is highly sensitive dependence to initial conditions, producing phase transitions. Once a critical threshold is passed, the fire spreads outwards, the disease becomes an epidemic, the material magnetic.

I'd like to peek into the drawing room, where you sometimes see only an open door into yet another room beyond the drawing room.

Beyond this, it is quite probable that if the models predicting serious global warming are even approximately correct, we have already crossed a threshold in terms of the greenhouse gases thus far pumped into the atmosphere. Significant global warming might be inevitable, therefore, irrespective of whatever emission-reducing measures we now take. It follows that novel technologies and economic arrangements will have to be put in place to adjust to a wide array of consequences.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God.

Though this marriage is a sham, what we share tonight will be real, my lady. I said I'd treat you wi' the same respect I'd show my own true bride, and I meant it. I'd no' be able to call myself a Scotsman if I let you walk across this threshold.

Everything is a poison, nothing is a poison. It is the dose that makes the poison

bigger than a closet, empty except for an old oak door all bound

In questi soffocati processi decisionali, io dimostravo una soglia d'attenzione pari a quella di un adolescente drogato.

In the interim, in the void between the moment he opens the door and the moment he begins to reconquer the emptiness, his mind flails in a wordless panic. It is as if he were being forced to watch his own disappearance, as if, by crossing the threshold of his room, he were entering another dimension, taking up residence inside a black hole.

still couldn't believe that Kibii could cross the most momentous threshold of his life without my hearing a whisper of it. I scanned the area for Buller, wanting to be gone as quickly as possible, but didn't see him. I made off anyway, and had reached the edge of the ridge, readying myself for the steep descent, when I heard Kibii calling my name.

Adams began his reply with a devastating comment on the preamble to the Constitution: "I confess," he said, "as I enter the Building I stumble at the Threshold. I meet with a National Government, instead of a federal Union of Sovereign States.