Abiding Quotes - Page 3

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

If we don't help each other, who will?

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

They are fuelled by an ideology that itself is non-negotiable and forms a continuum that links peaceful, law-abiding but nevertheless intensely ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.