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  • The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

    Church   Ships   Cruise  
  • She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

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

    Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee
  • Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

  • It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

    Heart   Men   Feet  
  • 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.

    Perishing   Heed  
    Richard Baxter (1656). “The Reformed Pastor, Showing the Nature of the Pastoral Work ... Reprinted from the Edition of 1656, with an Appendix Afterwards Added”, p.28
  • Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!

    Jesus   Compassion   Soul  
  • I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

  • Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

    Nature   Spring   Animal  
    Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.90, Рипол Классик
  • In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

    Character   Race   Evil  
    RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
  • You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

    Life   Long   Shining  
    Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage
  • The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.

    Men   Rome   Blood  
  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

    Heart   Race   Water  
    "Letters from the Earth" (1940)
  • We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

    John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109
  • If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

    Peace   Freedom   War  
    Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

    "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". 1988.
  • 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.

    Fate   Men   Unjust  
    Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.263, Courier Corporation
  • Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.

  • I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

  • Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

    Letting Go   Truth   Past  
  • In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

    Peace   Heart   Men  
  • She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

    Death   Mother   Dream  
    Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”
  • All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

    Soul   World   Riches  
    Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.1722, Lulu Press, Inc
  • We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

    Dream   Real   Perishing  
  • Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

    Christian   Lust   Trying  
  • I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

    "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.
  • It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.

    Jesus   Men   Soul  
    John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics
  • As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

    Mother   Father   Party  
    "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.
  • We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

    Mean   Age   Culture  
    Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press
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