Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Efficiency obliterates identity
Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
