Edmond Jabes Quotes
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There's an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
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In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.
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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
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Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
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As a longtime follower of our state university system, we're always behind the curve. We always react to problems. We don't look to solve those problems before they occur.
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....
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I try to solve my problems by writing music and recording albums, but you know what's really funny about that? Once the album becomes a success, it doesn't solve your problems. It just gets harder to write the next album.
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Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite.
