When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Women are like wine: strong, spirited, full bodied, intoxicating, and potent. And we never cease to surprise.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!
Any time you see something out there floating around that's not really reality, it's better to just cease it and stop it.
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.
Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.
Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.
I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.
There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.
When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
Cease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants.
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.
How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
The truth is the river flows into the canyon
Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.
There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
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