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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
“We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.”
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“We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.”
“But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.”
“But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.”
“Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.”
“It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.”
“This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.”
“In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.”
“Hedge funds are not noted for their long-term thinking - for them, a quarter is an eternity.”
“I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.”
“God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.”
“In baseball 30 days is an eternity.”
“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”