Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough? Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when. But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely. I do not suppose you and I would have though much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side. God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else -something it never entered your head to conceive- comes crasing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C.S. LewisTag: end-of-the-world time-to-choose
I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.
Annie DillardTag: world plays end-of-the-world
Maintenant tu n'as plus de refuges. Tu as peur, tu attends que tout s'arrête, la pluie, les heures, le flot des voitures, la vie, les hommes, le monde, que tout s'écroule, les murailles, les tours, les planchers et les plafonds; que les hommes et les femmes, les vieillards et les enfants, les chiens, les chevaux, les oiseaux, un à un, tombent à terre, paralysés, pestiférés, épileptiques; que le marbre s'effrite, que le bois se pulvérise, que les maisons s'abattent en silence, que les pluies diluviennes dissolvent les peintures, disjoignent les chevilles des armoires centenaires, déchiquettent les tissus, fassent fondre l'encre des journaux; q'un feu sans flammes ronge les marches des escaliers; que les rues s'effondrent en leur exact milieu, découvrant le labyrinthe béant des égouts; que la rouille et la brume envahissent la ville.
Georges PerecTag: end-of-the-world phantasm
I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.
Charles M. SchulzTag: church preachers apocalypse armageddon end-of-the-world preaching last-days
The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.
Richard KadreyTag: end-of-the-world new-worlds-exploration
Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
Tag: beer end-of-the-world
If 2012 is the end of the world can I have a table for two at Ground Zero?
Stanley Victor PaskavichTag: end-of-the-world 2012 mayan-calander stantasyland
When the Mayan Calendar runs out there will be another day. Just like there was with Y2K.
Stanley Victor PaskavichTag: end-of-the-world 2012 mayan-calendar
If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?
Patrick NessTag: life end-of-the-world
The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!
Steve ToltzTag: end-of-the-world a-fraction-of-the-whole steve-toltz
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