A Quote by Philip Yancey

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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
American - Author
Born: 1949

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

C. S. Lewis

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Chris Adrian

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Heraclitus

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

Bruce R. McConkie

There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.

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Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.

Rudolf Steiner

Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

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Anne Rice

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Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

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