Quotes about Continuity
When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.
— Gordon Hinckley
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
— Edmund Burke
The revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29
— Beth Moore
Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.
— St. Augustine
Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.
— St. Augustine
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
— Francis de Sales
Is not this the broad earth still?
— Henry David Thoreau
For the improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
— Henry David Thoreau
To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.
— Rowan Williams
Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
— Marcus Aurelius
All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.
— Marcus Aurelius
Think of how many people have died, and how many more animals have been killed and eaten by humans and each other, yet the Earth is not overflowing with corpses. Life continually renews itself. * * *
— Marcus Aurelius