The former tendency is what I call the deathward -- deathward for all else but itself; and the Christ is the lifeward, life for all else but itself. ❋ Unknown (1911)
These two tendencies we may describe as the deathward and the lifeward respectively. ❋ Unknown (1911)
At the center of Posthumous Keats is the journey deathward. ❋ Ricks, Christopher (2009)
Or as in Achilles: his eyes meeting Penthesilea's, recognizing suddenly of the Amazonian queen's great beauty, the warrior falls in love with her but the deathward, plunging tip of his sword lies presently one angstrom away from her throat. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Nay, said Merlin, not so, for I could save myself an I would; and thou art more near thy death than I am, for thou goest to the deathward, an God be not thy friend. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In such struggles life spends itself fast; an inward wound does not carry one deathward more surely than this worst wound of the soul. ❋ Various (N/A)
Would my heart and life flow onward -- deathward -- through this dream of THEE! ' ❋ Various (N/A)
So translated by Floyd Dell: "O ye deathward-going tribes of man, what do your lives mean except that they go to nothingness?" ❋ Unknown (1918)
Now, when we have brought the two together, you see the essential distinction between working for self and its deathward look, and working for all with its lifeward gaze. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Yet -- I repeat it -- all men are seeking life, life more abundant, even in their selfishness and wrong-doing, seeking life by the deathward road. ❋ Unknown (1911)
I called them last Sunday morning from the pulpit the deathward and the lifeward respectively. ❋ Unknown (1911)
The deathward tendency is what I may call the self-ward tendency in the upward struggle of all organic forms, that is, one organism only exists at the expense of other organisms. ❋ Unknown (1911)
The words are not very satisfactory because the deathward tendency masquerades as the lifeward tendency, and the lifeward tendency, before fruition, looks like the deathward one. ❋ Unknown (1911)
What is lifeward for him may be deathward for them; he is willing that it should be so -- that is the sin. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Apply that explanation or definition of sin to what you know about life, and you will soon see when a man is facing the deathward road, and how differently he acts when he is choosing the lifeward road. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Yet -- curious inversion of earlier experience -- the deathward tendency results in death to itself in the spiritual region, and the lifeward tendency results in life to him who gives life. ❋ Unknown (1911)
We have briefly examined the two tendencies of which I have spoken; have you realised that in the things of the spirit the deathward tendency is what we call sin? ❋ Unknown (1911)
The terms are not very satisfactory, because the deathward tendency usually masquerades as the lifeward, and the lifeward often looks like the deathward. ❋ Unknown (1911)
"Nay," said Merlin, "not so, for I could save myself an I would; and thou art more near thy death than I am, for thou goest to the deathward, an God be not thy friend." ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)
