Book of Life
Proper noun
Meaning
the Book of Life
(Christianity, Judaism) The book in which God is said to record the name of every person who is destined for heaven or the world to come.
Examples
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS ALLONBY. It ends with Revelations.
He has built his monument With the winds of time at strife, Who could have before he went Written in the book of life. To the stars from which he came Empty handed he goes home; He who might have wrought in flame Only traced upon the foam.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Omar Khayyam is right: "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on."