Famous quotes with The last moments

• The peace that passeth understanding is that which comes when the pain is not relieved, which subsists in the midst of the painful situation, suffusing it, which springs out of the pain itself, which shimmers on the crest of the wave of pain, which is the spear of frustration transfigured into the shaft of light. It is upon those we love that we must anchor ourselves spiritually in the last moments. The sense of interconnectedness with them stands out vividly by way of contrast at the very moment when our mortal connection with them is about to be dissolved. And the intertwining of our life with theirs, the living in the life that is in them, is but a part of our living in the infinite manifold of the spiritual life. The thought of this, as apprehended, not in terms of knowledge, but in immediate experience, begets the peace that passeth understanding. And it is upon the bosom of that peace that we can pass safely out of the realm of time and space.

  Felix Adler
• In the last moments of the great ship’s doom, when all was plainly lost, when braver and hardier men might almost have been excused for doing practically anything to save themselves, they stood responsive to their conductor’s baton and played a recessional tune.

  Steve Turner
• Boethius is a singular figureThe tone of the book is more like that of Plato than that of Plotinus.There is perfect philosophic calmit is as admirable as the last moments of the Platonic Socrates. One does not find a similar outlook until after NewtonDuring the two centuries before his time and the ten centuries after it, I cannot think of any European man of learning so free from superstition and fanaticism.He would have been remarkable in any age; in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing.

  Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

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