Quotes About Living

Sometimes it's the nihilism that makes life worth living.

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.

to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living...

Of what use is unrealized divinity to anyone? If he is unconscious of his higher self, is a man any better off? The link of being linked with God potentially is not enough. It must also be personally discovered, felt, known, and demonstrated in living activity.

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do it. (66)

Listen to the present tense gospel in the words of Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ [a statement of historical redemptive fact]. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me [a statement of present redemptive reality]. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me [living in light of the gospel right here, right now].

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do

When you don't know your Bible well, you will tend to use it as an isolated collection of wisdom statements for daily living, and you will tend to look for the verse that best seems to fit the situation you are discussing. This method completely misses the genius of the Bible's grand redemptive themes that form the basis of the hope and courage of the brand-new way of living to which God has called us.

You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.

If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.

Translation: the primary purpose of all the language in the Bible and in the creeds and catechism is to tell us how to live rather than provide us with clear, final answers about the nature of God and the universe.

Loving others, therefore, is not a question so much of "doing God's will" but, rather, of "living God's life.

Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the cornerstone.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

It takes a special, ironic kind of person to use their own impending death as an impetus to finally live.

The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead.

Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that some of us stand on one bank and some on the opposite. So long as we stand like that we are not living at all, but dreaming. So jump, jump in, and let the shock wake us up. Even if we drown, at least for a moment or two before we die we shall be awake and alive.

in this life, living, there is no dignity except perhaps in laughter.

The ultimate rebellion wasn't fighting the system, it was circumventing the system and living your life fully.

A maturidade bíblica nunca é apenas a respeito do que você sabe; é sempre sobre como a graça tem empregado o que você veio a saber para transformar a maneira como você vive.

Un choc qui nous atteint dans une direction imprévue nous donne brusquement une sensation nouvelle de l'existence de notre corps en tant qu'inconnu; nous ne savions pas tout ce que nous étions, et il arrive que cette sensation brutale nous rende elle-même sensibles, par un effet secondaire, à une grandeur et à une figure inattendues de notre domaine vivant.