Quotes About Constancy

The relative constancy of the love of family and friends makes the absolute faithfulness of divine love at least conceivable. Hints of unconditional love from humans make the possibility of absolutely unconditional divine love imaginable.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.

Words lie. Actions can lie too. Consistency speaks the truth.

The moon is your reminder that God is never-changing, and you can always depend on Him to hear your prayers.

So: after all, we may with assurance say only the following about the Old One's universe: that nothing is constant other than the speed of light. Of space all we may say with assurance is that it is something you measure with a ruler. And of time all we may say is that it is something you measure with a clock. But for the theological visions and screams and terrors this produces in our brains, I beg you do not hold me responsible.

Besides, the sundry motions of your Spheares, So sundry waies and fashions as clerkes faine, "Some in short space, and some in longer yeares; What is the same but alteration plaine? Onely the starrie skie doth still remaine: Yet do the Starres and Signes therein still moue, And euen itself is mov'd, as wizards saine. But ALL THAT MOUETH, DOTH MUTATION LOUE: Therefore both you and them to me I subiect proue.

we had evolved to grub around within a few kilometres of the same village, in the same time zone, under the same fixed stars.

Ease and enjoyment must not be the end of Christian retirement, but penance, labor, and assiduous contemplation; without great fervor and constancy in which, close solitude is the road to perdition.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

C'est une habitude constante de tous les schismes et de toutes les hérésies de quelque ordre que ce soit, de se présenter comme un retour à la pureté des origines.

The same moon is still up there. The same stars that Abraham saw... And I know that the same God who put them there and made them shine, He's still there too... And I know that God does not lie. ...We don't need to judge God's way of doing stuff. It gets done.

Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.

I now realized this woman was livid with anger. Not the sort that suddenly hits you then drains away. No. This woman, I could tell had been in a kind of white heat for sometime. It's a sort of anger that arrives and then stays put at a constant level like a bad headache never quite peaking and refusing to find a proper outlet.

We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is every part of it, restless and migratory as are its elements, still it abides. It is bound together by a law of permanence, and though it is ever dying, it is ever coming to life again. Dissolution does but give birth to fresh modes of organization, and one death is the parent of a thousand lives.

But I am constant as the northern star,Of whose true-fix'd and resting qualityThere is no fellow in the firmament.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.Men were deceivers ever;One foot in sea, and one on shore,To one thing constant never.

But all the story of the night told over,And all their minds transfigur'd so together,More witnesseth than fancy's images,And grows to something of great constancy,But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.