Quotes About Perishing

People were dying like flies

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner.

Ever since his heart attack there is a gnawing in his stomach whose cause he can't locate until he realizes it is the terror of being trapped inside his perishing body, like being in a prison cell with a madman who might decide to kill him at any moment

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.

The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.