Hope is the struggle of the soul breaking loose from what is perishable and attesting her eternity.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.

If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

I am the family face flesh perishes I live on.