Quotes about Continuity

The Latin words humus , soil/earth, and homo , human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

The revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29

Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.

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.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Is not this the broad earth still?

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.

To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.