"Incorruption" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eating and drinking we repair the daily decays of our body, until Thou destroy both belly and meat, when Thou shalt slay my emptiness with a wonderful fulness, and clothe this incorruptible with an eternal incorruption. But now the necessity is sweet unto me, against which sweetness I fight, that I be not taken captive; and carry on a daily war by fastings; often bringing my body into subjection; and my pains are removed by pleasure. ...
— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine
... the beloved prophets referred to him; but the Gospel is the perfection of incorruption. All therefore together are good, if ...
— The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete • Archbishop Wake
... shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... disposition, and am no encourager of it in others. Never be afraid to think yourself fit for any thing for which your friends think you fit. You will become an able negotiator—a very pretty rascal. No one in Ireland wears even the mask of incorruption; no one professes to do for sixpence what he can get a shilling for doing. Set sail, and see where the winds and the waves will carry you. Every day will improve another. Dies diem docet, by observing at night where you failed in the day, and by resolving ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell |
