Pastoral Resources

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.