Quotes About Continuance

Here is the dream of the earth: continuance.

As truly as God by His power once created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.

Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.

big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

That rose-bush gave Marcus a sense of continuance; it was a link between him and those who had been here before him, here on the frontier, and the others who would come after.

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

Not to abide in Jesus' love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That's the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.

And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. —1 JOHN 2:28

As for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing those from whom you learned. 2 Timothy 3:14

It is to this new-found resolution to reassert our indivisibility with life, to recognize the obligations incumbent upon us as the most powerful and deadly species ever to exist, and to begin making amends for the havoc we have wrought, that my own hopes for a revival and continuance of life on earth now turn. If we persevere in this new way we may succeed in making man humane ... at last.

When an abuse has once taken root everything is arranged on the assumption of its continuance.

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

For even the vice which by the force of habit and long continuance has become a second nature, had its origin in the will.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance

The first law of bureaucracy is to guarantee its own continuance.

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

And that, Chika, was the beginning of providence moving our lives together, or the continuance of it, I should say, since the Lord doesn't get ideas partway through a life.

Extreme continuing unhappiness often consoles itself with images of death which may in a sense be idle, but which can play a vital part in consolation and also in the continuance of illusion. If that happens I am dead, consoles, and also dulls the edge of speculation and even of conscience. It is another way of saying, to me that cannot happen.

Even the 'right to live'...extends no further than the right to protection against murder. Charity certainly will, morality possibly may, and public utility perhaps ought to add to this protection supererogatory provision for continuance of life; but it is questionable whether strict justice demands it.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

But wulf did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life. The nature of the beast.

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.