Passeth Quotes

#1. Chapter 1, verse 4, he said. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

Louise Erdrich

#2. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

#3. Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie Poems by Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

Ian S Varty

#4. The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

Russell Kirk

#5. The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

Thomas A Kempis

#6. Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

R.A. Torrey

#7. The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

Julian Of Norwich

#8. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (I John 2:16, 17) .

A.W. Tozer

#9. This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom
the very fashion of which passeth away.

Francois Fenelon

#10. He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.

George Herbert

#11. In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.

Rajneesh

#12. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Francis Bacon

#13. So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

Edmund Spenser

#14. Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Helen Keller

#15. Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.

Michael Dirda

#16. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

George Herbert

#17. The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.

Robert Boyle

#18. The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

Georg Hermes

#19. He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.

Alexander MacLaren

#20. The intimations of gravity hung heavy, the meaning passeth all understanding.

Neil Postman

#21. Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Charles Spurgeon

#22. It is vanity, too, to covet honours, and to lift up ourselves on high ... It is vanity, to love that which quickly passeth away and not to hasten where eternal joy abideth

Thomas A Kempis

#23. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.

Lancelot Andrewes

#24. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something
(All The King's Men)

Robert Penn Warren

#25. That's what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, carry with us into operating rooms, carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again.

William Faulkner

#26. For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

Julian Of Norwich

#27. In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia ... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

Olympia Brown

#28. I think that gay people in some ways end up forming a very different sense of humour to straight people. We all go through similar things and it's a way of dealing with it.

Jason Sellards

#29. You're fine the way you are. Don't try to change it, try to better it.

Laura L. Namy

#30. Like the Buddha, we too have come from suchness, remain in suchness, and will return to suchness. We have come from nowhere and have nowhere to go.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#31. That person thought that wearing an ugly dress on the happiest day of someone else's life was just the beginning-the line you have to stand in to get to your own happiest day.

Rainbow Rowell

#32. How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

Dan Burton

#33. From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

Dwyane Wade