LIFE
(See also Life Everlasting; Life Span; Old Age; Science)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
animal: g78 4/8 10-16; im 135-137, 174; pa 14-15; w55 538-539; dh 31-32; nh 58; tf 66-68
appreciating its value: ce 12-13; w78 6/1 3-4; w76 3-4; ts 15-16; g74 2/8 16; g74 7/22 28; w73 325-330; w73 488; tp73 155-165; yb73 3-4; w72 415; g71 1/8 25-26; w67 272; w66 169, 600; g65 2/22 3-4; w64 260, 267; g64 4/22 3; w63 271; g62 2/8 27-28; w61 227-228; g61 4/8 3-4; g61 11/8 27-28
Aristotle’s theory on origin of: g84 9/22 9
“bag of life” (1Sa 25:29): g77 5/22 22
best way of: w85 8/15 12-16; w85 11/1 3-7; bw 5-14
“book of life” (Re 20:15): w85 12/1 15-18; w83 7/1 23; w83 10/1 18; w82 4/1 24-25; ka 157-159; ad 1065; w67 525; im 374; w64 726; bf 644, 648; g62 10/22 28; nh 349-350; el 303; w47 202-205; lt-2-30 203
“book of life” (Re 3:5): ad 1203; fm 155, 164; w67 525; bf 647; w58 58; g55 9/22 29-30; w53 307-309
“bread of life” (Joh 6:35, 48): w78 9/1 25-29; lp 86
Chief Agent of: w73 104; w73 263; w72 690; w71 30; ad 923-924; w70 525-531
choosing: w81 6/1 3-12; w80 3/15 16, 21-26; bw 5-192
Christian view of “normal” life: w78 8/1 18-19, 22-23
“come to life” (Re 20:5): w82 4/1 23-24; w82 12/1 31; w74 6-7; w74 95-96; w74 608
coping with problems of: g81 8/8 5-12; hp 41-50
“crown of life”:
James 1:12: w79 7/1 30; cj 26-27
Revelation 2:10: w79 7/1 30; fm 117, 125
definition: ms53 242-243; g41 4/16 17; w35 237
design in living things: ce 142-147, 150-159
desire for long: g77 4/22 3
differing views on: ts 6-8
discussion: g77 4/22 3-15; g77 8/8 3-5; w76 3-6; w75 328-331; ml 3-31; w73 325-330; ad 1061-1066
disregard and disrespect for human life: tr 163-165; g74 10/8 23; g70 3/22 4-8; w69 325-326; g68 1/22 31; g64 12/8 16, 20; bf 18-20; w59 227, 419; g59 1/8 3; g58 7/22 3
earth designed for: ce 129-141; g81 2/22 12-13; lp 10-23; g76 9/22 16-19
earth’s zone of: g71 4/22 5
effect of evolution theory: ml 12-14
effect of sunlight on: ce 131-133; g72 2/8 10-11; w60 376; w58 549; pa 12-13; g47 12/8 22-24; g36 9/23 816
enjoyment of: g79 8/22 7-11
getting the best out of: w85 8/15 11-16; g81 1/8 5-11; bw 5-14; yy 5-8, 180-186, 191-192
goals: w83 1/15 16-17; yy 180-186; g74 8/22 6-8
“good life” not enough: w78 8/15 21; w64 330
happiness in: w85 8/15 11-16; w84 6/15 14-19; w83 3/1 3-8; g81 1/8 5-6; hp 5-9, 188-191
hardiness of: g71 8/22 11-12
heavenly: w84 2/15 8-9; uw 110-113; tr 75-80; ad 823-824, 828-829, 1063; w68 764-767; w63 733; w58 605-606; g55 6/22 9-11; w54 681-683; nh 164-170; w52 63-64; lg 298-303; el 113-123; w48 120-121; ci 123-124; g30 10/29 89-93
immortality: w84 4/1 30-31; ad 823-824; im 145-147; w63 732-734; g61 8/8 5-8; w59 84; w55 539-540; dh 33-34; nh 314-315; lg 72-74; w48 340, 347-348; g48 4/22 25-26; w46 115-116, 119-125
“in himself” (Joh 5:26):
Jehovah: w78 9/1 19-20
Jesus: w78 9/1 19-20; g78 9/22 22-23; w64 717-719; w51 56; w49 119-120
interdependency: g73 7/8 7
“in yourselves” (Joh 6:53):
anointed: w78 9/1 28-30
Jehovah’s loving kindness “better than life” (Ps 63:3): w85 4/1 4-6
‘life belongs to you’ (1Co 3:21, 22): w71 351-352
life-force: w81 1/1 31
life span:
effect of smoking on: g84 1/22 30
habits that promote a long: w84 11/15 15
Japan: g84 1/22 31; g84 8/22 30
number with life expectancy below 60 years: g84 12/22 6
women: g84 2/8 30
light associated with: w76 301-304, 307-310
living on Jehovah’s utterances (Mt 4:4): w85 6/15 13-18
marvels of: ce 12-13
meaning in: g85 3/22 6-7
microscopic: ce 143-144
middle years: g83 2/22 3-12
narrow way to (Mt 7:13, 14): hp 168-170, 174-175
origin:
beginning of earthly: ce 30-34; pa 12-18; nh 47-66; tf 63-69
Darwin’s (Charles) comment: ce 9
differing views: ce 8-9
gift from God: cj 32; g61 4/8 4; g61 11/8 27-28
importance of question: ce 7-11
not ‘chemical accident’: ce 38-47, 50-53; w81 12/1 15; w78 7/15 5-8; w77 429; g76 9/22 19; w74 720
proof of God’s existence: ce 37-47, 50-53; g84 9/22 9-10; w81 12/1 15; hp 11-12; g80 10/22 9-10
scientists unable to create: ce 17; w82 6/1 15; g75 12/8 21; g72 10/22 7-8
Source: g84 9/22 9; uw 154; lp 77-87; w73 35-36; w73 163-164; w73 325; w73 488; tp73 155; w71 44-45; ad 1061; w69 44; w67 549-551; w66 169; ms 319; w64 328, 695; g64 4/22 25-26; g63 4/22 4-7; g63 10/8 22-23; w61 227-228; g61 9/8 6-7; g59 1/8 3; g55 3/8 25; lg 26-27; el 20, 23; w48 339; w43 99
spontaneous life impossible: ce 38-47, 50-53; g82 3/22 29; w78 2/15 7; lp 79-80
theory of origin in outer space: ce 21
theory that it began in clay: w85 7/15 21
worldly views: ce 38-40; g81 2/22 13-14; w78 7/15 5-8; ml 9-10; g74 9/22 20; g73 10/22 9-11; g68 9/8 12; ev 5-6; g67 4/22 7-9; g65 4/8 7-8; g63 4/22 4; g58 12/8 15; w56 159; g54 3/8 18-21; lg 81; ew 18; g31 11/25 115-118
outer space: ce 21; g81 2/22 5-10, 14; g81 12/8 31; g79 8/22 16; g75 2/8 29; g73 5/22 3, 6, 11-12; w67 645-648; g66 7/8 8-17; w65 703-704; im 384-385; g64 9/8 5-8
life in, science fiction: w83 4/1 16
search for: w84 10/15 26
pace of:
countries compared: g85 6/22 29
perfection: su 98-99; w71 499-500; w64 326-327; w63 733; g60 7/22 27-28; w59 219; sr55 353; nh 345-346, 350-351; w52 670; el 23, 295-296, 304; w46 99-110; g41 4/16 17-18
plant: ce 30-31, 46-47, 145-147, 150-151; g78 4/8 4-9; pa 12; w56 126-127; nh 47-49; tf 63-64
proper pace: g73 7/8 3-4
purpose: hp 5-9; g80 10/22 3-11; lp 5-16; g77 9/22 3-4; w76 5-6; gh 174; g76 12/8 3-4; ml 4, 14, 18, 30; g75 5/8 3-5; w74 657, 659-660, 662, 669; w73 326-330; w65 254; g65 2/22 3-4; w64 131-132; g60 11/22 5-8; g59 1/22 6-8; w57 472, 581-583; w53 486, 759; bn 5; w48 380-382
appeal for a hundred best intellectuals to discuss: w77 668
basis for: w84 7/1 23; w78 2/1 16-21
clergy failure to find: hp 131
need for: g77 12/8 29
search for: g79 8/22 12; w78 8/1 11; w77 668; g74 11/22 7-12
Selye’s (Dr. Hans) comment: g80 6/22 28
universal law reveals: lp 98-107
youths: hp 88-90
quality of: g74 9/8 3-6
improving: g77 4/22 5-9; g74 9/8 5-7
way to a better life: g81 1/8 5-11
requirements: w83 2/15 12-13; w80 4/15 30; lp 181-191; w73 325-330; w72 454-455; w71 63-64; w71 132; w71 477-478; w71 634-639; ad 1062, 1064; te 187-190; g70 10/8 26-29; w66 601-605; g66 10/8 26-27; w65 120-123; ms 321; g65 2/8 5-7; w64 134-136; g63 7/8 6-7; w62 38, 259-260; g62 2/8 27-28; w61 41-46, 69-72; g61 9/8 7; g60 4/22 27-28; g60 11/22 5-8; g59 1/22 8; pa 242-250; g58 11/8 25-26; w57 15-19, 405-406, 466-473, 582-583; g57 4/8 8; w56 243-244, 246-250, 253; w55 67; g54 7/8 6-7; w52 169-176; w50 204-206; el 10-11, 19, 180; g49 6/22 26; w47 213; ch 25; w32 6; g32 1/6 218; g32 3/16 378; g32 10/26 59; g31 5/27 570-574; w30 41
right to life:
Adam: w63 604; w47 182; w45 217, 233; tf 105; ch 15-16; w34 174
anointed Christians: w45 233-236; ch 15-16; w35 237
discussion: w45 217-219, 227-236, 250-253; w41 51; ch 15-16, 23, 41-42, 129; w31 188
granted after final test: w85 12/1 18; su 104; tr 112-113; w69 136; w68 454; g62 10/22 27-28; sr55 360; lg 293; w47 204-205; w45 253; w44 107
“river of water of life” (Re 22:1): w85 4/15 7; w77 9-10
sacredness: uw 154; tr 163-165; lp 149-150; w75 639; g75 11/22 26-28; g74 5/8 27; w73 300-302; w73 511; w71 344; w69 325-326, 767; w67 497; w64 692-693; g64 12/8 20; bf 15-20; w61 118; g59 1/8 3-4; g55 3/8 25-26
discussion: w78 6/15 16-21
satisfaction in: w85 8/15 11-16; w77 590-591; w75 54-61; g75 5/8 3-5; g74 8/8 4-7
scientists’ claims: hp 12; g71 9/8 5-7
“scroll of life” (Re 17:8): w83 10/1 14-16; ad 1065, 1203; w64 53-54; bf 584, 590; w53 307-309
“scroll of life” (Re 20:12): w82 4/1 22-24; kc 182; ad 1065, 1460; im 371; w64 725-726; bf 646-648; w59 256; el 298, 300; w47 202-205; lt-2-30 202-203
“scroll of life of the Lamb” (Re 13:8; 21:27): ad 1065, 1203, 1460; fm 331, 334-335; w67 525; w64 53; bf 647; g55 9/22 30
soul: tr 36-37; ad 1534; w68 660; im 134-143; g64 6/8 28; w63 232; bd 8; g61 8/8 5-8; bi6 399-407; g60 12/22 27; w55 534-535; w53 445; bi4 845-850; nh 55; bi7-50 763
spiritual: ad 1546; w59 3-4; w58 57-58; w47 231-232
“tree of life” (Ge 2:9): hp 113; ad 483, 1063; im 179; w59 84, 90; yw 62; g57 6/8 25-26; nh 72; el 279, 285; w49 180, 189
“tree of life” (Re 2:7): ad 1065; fm 113-116; w59 84; w58 53; w49 189; ci 360; lt-1-30 20-21
“trees of life” (Re 22:2): w85 4/15 7; su 188; w77 9-10; ad 1065; w60 439-440; pa 199; w57 568-570; sr55 313; w51 306
uncertainties of: ts 5-6, 8, 12-15
coping with: g76 9/22 3-5
using, to serve Jehovah: w85 4/1 6; ce 250-251; tr 162; w74 369-374, 378-380; g74 8/8 4-5; g71 9/22 3-6; g69 5/22 28; w64 328-334
values to live by: g78 8/8 3-5
views:
Buddha’s: rm 208
early Christians’: w71 344
it is all right to break God’s law in order to save a (Mt 12:1-8): w82 7/15 30-31
“waters of life” (Re 7:17): uw 107-109; w82 8/1 31; ts 165; fm 206-208; bf 676-678
what is most important in: w85 4/1 3-6
when life actually begins: w74 509; g74 2/8 13; tp73 156; g73 12/22 27; ad 1061-1062
“your loving-kindness is better than life” (Ps 63:3): w79 8/1 29-30
Quotations
chemists have never succeeded in reproducing nature’s experiments on creation of life out of nonliving matter: ce 17
growing scorn for human life: g83 7/22 29
life may exist only on earth, study says: g81 2/22 12
life on earth may be unique: w79 9/1 15
life spent in service of God is the most pleasant: w85 10/1 23
material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no purpose: g79 10/8 29
nothing helps one to survive the worst conditions as knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life: w82 8/1 13
nothing supports view that death is tied to the concept of life as a physical necessity: g82 10/8 16
scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation: ce 17