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The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. -- James Alison
Mortality defines the human condition. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. -- Joan D. Vinge
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. -- M. Russell Ballard
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. -- Gene Tunney
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action. -- Bill McKibben
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. -- David Cronenberg
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena. -- Will Self
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. -- Thomas Pynchon
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. -- Roger Ebert
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. -- Ernest Becker
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. -- Leon Kass
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. -- Karl Barth

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