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From Tom Stoppard:
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where is it going to end?
From Tom Stoppard:
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where is it going to end?
From Woody Allen:
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my art. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
2005
From Harold Masback, On the Road Again" (April 10, 2005):
Saint Augustine prayed for a sign and then heard a child sing, “Take it up and Read.” Racing to his Bible and opening it to a random page, Augustine read a passage from Romans that called him to repent. Tears streamed down his face as he committed his life to Christ.
From John Wesley:
John Wesley found his heart strangely warmed” on the road to Aldersgate as he contemplated lecturing on Luther’s “Commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Romans.”
From Simone Weil, Waiting for God (December 2, 1994) at page 67:
God constantly approaches us like a beggar, quietly tapping us again and again on the shoulder, waiting for us to turn. We are free, however, to ignore him as long as we want, until at last he accepts our refusal and quietly moves on.
1983
From H.G. Haile, Luther: An Experiment in Biography. (Princeton Univ Pr, June 1983)
As Martin Luther wrote, I did not come to my theology all of a sudden, but had to brood ever more deeply. My trials brought me to it, for we do not learn anything except by experience.”
From John 5:30-31:
I can do nothing on my own…I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
From Luke 18:19:
Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone
From Harold Masback, The Divine Reboot" (February 6, 2005) at page 10:
You and I say that we “spend time,” as if time had no value or measure except as we “have” it and “spend” it and “use” it to earn money or expand our mastery of the world. But the Benedictines know that time belongs not to us, but to God. God has hallowed time; taming the chaotic momentum of creation with the rhythm and order of days and weeks.