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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Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.
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More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.
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Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.
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The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
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Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite.
