James Martineau Quotes

Theories pass. The frog remains.

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

The truth always stays the same.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.

Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

Human-nature will not change.

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

Things change, but they stay the same.

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.