#eternal

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ↗

— Anne Rice

#always #believe #cease #devil #difficult

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#bought #damnation #eternal #ever #i

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#deprive #done #duty #eternal #had

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. ↗

— John le Carre

#doing #dozen #eternal #good #nothing

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#belong #eternal #eternal world #half #humans

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fable #moral #story #temporary

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. ↗

— Martin Luther

#conscience #die #end #eternal #justice

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#altar #eternal #every #form #god

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#form #government #mankind #only #open

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#afterwards #anyone #ask #aunt #being