Quotes about Legacy

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God!

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but continues what was begun and not finished in the past.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.

I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.

The memory of a good deed lives.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.