There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Everything mortal has moments immortal
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.
Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.
Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?
Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.
love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.
Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.