Abiding Quotes - Page 2

The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.

The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.

The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Developing the capacity for clear light dreams is similar to developing the capacity of abiding in the non-dual presence of rigpa during the day. In the beginning, rigpa and thought seem different, so that in the experience of rigpa there is no thought, and if thought arises we are distracted and lose rigpa. But when stabliity in rigpa is developed, thought simply arises and dissolves without in the least obscuring rigpa; the practitioner remains in non-dual awareness.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

There is no abiding success without commitment.

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.