Contentment. . . is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
The Quran refers to “those who followed him in the hour of difficulty. ” How beautiful the Quran’s expressions are. It refers to difficulty as an hour that passes by quickly and then is over, not as something that overwhelms one’s whole life
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.
Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.
Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.
More than blood passes through the human heart.
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.
Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.
You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.