Quotes About Ultimate

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

The temporal cannot know the Eternal, so to the extent that the Sufi contemplates God in his heart, God Himself is the contemplator: Ultimately, the Witness, the Witnesser, and the Witnessing are all one. (p. 288)

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.

there is no God, then life itself becomes meaningless. Man and the universe are without ultimate significance.

In fact this ultimate degree of Darwinian faith, which blinds the faithful to even the most obvious facts of human life, is far commoner at present than it ever was before. But

Sade's ultimate achievement was to make sex the choicest expression of obscene cruelty and absolute, despotic power.

What is remarkable is that all this was done, the bodies extracted, through the very mechanisms of the human economy, premised on the principle that human lives are the ultimate value, to which nothing could possibly compare.

So what is slavery? I've already begun to suggest an answer in the last chapter. Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all social relationships that make one a human being. Another way to put this is that the slave is, in a very real sense, dead.

Do not force things.... Can you afford to be careless? So then, flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. How else can you carry out your task? It is best to leave everything to work naturally, though this is not easy.21

Freedom is at root a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal act of love, even as love properly understood is a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal order of truth. Freedom and truth are therefore united in what is at once an act and an order of love.

The harm is in whom this system makes powerful. If value is no longer vested in gold, but in the promise of gold, then the men who make the promises hold ultimate power. If money and gold are one and the same, then gold defines value, but if money and paper are the same, then value is based upon nothing at all.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

The greatest good on this earth is God

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God.

In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory.