#eternal

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be. ↗

— Tadao Ando

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#belong #eternal #eternal world #half #humans

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#altar #eternal #every #form #god

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ↗

— Simone Weil

#being #chance #coming #eternal #him

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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