Absoluteness Quotes

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

Never is an awfully long time.

The truth has no temperature.

There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

The separation is perfect, complete, and perpetual.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures