Quotes About Immutability

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

It had not done so then, and could not now

To define the limits of the Kenosis, and to adjust it to the immutability of the Godhead and the intertrinitarian process, lies beyond the sphere of exegesis and belongs to speculative dogmatics.

Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight? The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul and knowledge. Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task, to know that I am I, and was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?

It was a relief to decide you didn't have to decide. It was a relief to have faith in immutability, a relief to lose faith in your ability to change something, even when it was something you'd wish you could change. It was a relief to be imposed on intractably. Acceptance, if not brave, was at least a relief. That was the trick of it.

god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material world below.

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

Even if complete immutability might not be possible, it's beneficial for regular mutable objects to keep their internal state in immutable data structures, because that allows easier synchronization when the object is modified from multiple thrads or in a reentrant way.

As with the wei-wu-wei, "in changing it is at rest" (Heraclitus, frag. 84a). In place of the apparently solid I that does them, there would be an empty and immutably serene quality to them. The experience would be not of a succession of events (winter does not turn into spring) but just-this-one-effortless-thing (tathat?) and then another just-this-one-thing.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables. You cannot have a race condition or a concurrent update problem if no variable is ever updated. You cannot have deadlocks without mutable locks.

All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables. All the problems we face in applications that require multiple threads, and multiple processors—cannot happen if there are no mutable variables.

Theoretically, great opportunities lay ahead of a young man of energy in that day and place, but Carl Miller had been incapable of establishing either with his superiors or his subordinates the reputation for approximate immutability which is essential to success in a hierarchic industry.

El misterio radica también en la entrega del Padre. Dios no es hombre, movido por emociones pasajeras, sujeto al tiempo y al cambio. Él es el Creador eterno e inmutable.

If once round and solid, there is no fear that ever it will change.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

Immutability and impeccability (non-liability to sin) are qualities which essentially distinguish the Creator from the creature.

Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.

Nel sonno una cosa ci rassicura, ed è il fatto di uscirne, e di uscirne immutati, dato che una proibizione bizzarra c'impedisce di riportare con noi il residuo esatto dei nostri sogni.

Je verandert ook nooit. Altijd raadsels, altijd verhaaltjes, altijd geheimen.

Esses dados biológicos são de extrema importância: desempenham na história da mulher um papel de primeiro plano, são um elemento essencial da sua situação. (..) Mas o que recusamos é a ideia de que constituem um destino imutável para ela. (...) não a condenam a conservar para sempre essa condição subordinada.

So God's eternity is not a distinct good; but is the duration of good. His immutability is still the same good, with a negation of change. So that, as I said, the fullness of the Godhead is the fullness of his understanding, consisting in his knowledge; and the fullness of his will consisting in his virtue and happiness.