Perishing Quotes

“To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.”

“Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.”

“The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.”

“. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.”

“Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.He who loves corruption rots.He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.”

“We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.”

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”

“The church does not prey on the lost”

“The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.”

“And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all that protects every living thing on Earth from perishing in the harshness of space.”