God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: life optimism strength death courage joy endurance suicide chapter-21 steadfastness
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
Cormac McCarthyStichwörter: courage truthfulness cowardice steadfastness constancy betrayals
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: morality ethics soul religion temptation law principles body steadfastness doctrine
Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds, that shakes not, though they blow perpetually.
William ShakespeareStichwörter: steadfastness
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So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: decisions gandalf steadfastness truths
Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen."
(Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521)
Stichwörter: truth belief religion conscience freedom-of-thought christian organized-religion steadfastness freedom-of-religion reformation
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas PaineStichwörter: character steadfastness
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
Jim ElliotStichwörter: love steadfastness
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor HugoStichwörter: inspirational opinions change ideas steadfastness priniples
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Wilkie CollinsStichwörter: human-nature failure steadfastness constancy faults faultlessness
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