No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Quotes about lapse (16 Quotes)
These provisions of the USA Patriot Act are essential to our efforts in the war on terrorism, and their loss will damage our ability to prevent terrorist attacks. Our nation cannot afford to let these important counter-terrorism tools lapse.
The lapse of ages changes all things time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself.
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
Doubt, rather than faith, is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the church's response to this current situation will reveal, better than anything else, our faith in God - or our faithlessness. If we churchmen interpret such pervasive doubt as a threat, then we will do as the church has done so often in the past we will substitute the church for God, and make our church-centered activities into an ersatz kingdom of God. Our faithlessness will be evident in the easy paraphrase of the hard truth of the gospel, and in the lapse from the critical loyalty that God requires of us, into the vague and corrupting sentimentalism that has so marred American Protestantism. Or the church can interpret the present religious situation as a promise, as God's recall of His people to a new reformation. Our faithfulness to God-in-Christ will be manifest in the willingness to be honest with ourselves and with the gospel. Then we may view the church, not as an end in itself, but as the point of departure into the world for which the Son of God died. Which will it be.
Shonin I have composed a poem. Kokushi Let's hear it. Shonin When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only the voice that says, Namu Amida Butsu. Kokushi Something's wrong with the last couple of lines, don't you think (after a lapse of time) Shonin This is how I've written it When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. Namu Amida Butsu. Kokushi There You got it.
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Time crumbles things everything older under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an 'old man'. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an 'old' book.
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep to be exposed to darkness and the light to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of tradethis is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.