Pastoral Resources

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Immortality - a fate worse than death.

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.