Quotes about Vitality
The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation... Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.
- Billy Graham
I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality
- Billy Graham
Every city is a living body.
- St. Augustine
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.
- Brennan Manning
When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us.
- Brennan Manning
When our deepest truth is that we are the Beloved and when our greatest joy and peace come from fully claiming that truth, it follows that this has to become visible and tangible in the ways we eat and drink, talk and love, play and work. When the deepest currents of our life no longer have any influence on the waves at the surface, then our vitality will eventually ebb, and we will end up listless and bored even when we are busy.
- Henri Nouwen
Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world.
- Henry David Thoreau
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear.
- Henry David Thoreau
This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will.
- Henry David Thoreau
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
- Herman Melville
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.
- Lou Holtz
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
- Desmond Tutu