Eternity Quotes by Hannah More, Francis Chan, Rosie O’Donnell, Barbara Kingsolver, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many others.
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!
People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.
Part of the reason why I’ve never said that I was gay until now was because I didn’t want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O’Donnell.
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. Perhaps this is why President Brigham Young once said that if he could do but one thing to bless the Saints, he believed it would be to give them eyes with which to see things as they are.
Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it’s the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth’s eternal heritage.
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante’s plastic Paradiso, or Yeats’s gold-plated Byzantium.
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
OK, you’re alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?
It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul… the Light Unchangeable… He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It’s a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.
Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no panic in the divine personality. God is peace, God gives peace, God gives rest.
I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn’t that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, “Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds.” (D&C 43:34.) You cannot do that when your minds are preoccupied with the cares of the world.
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time…When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity.
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
I will dance and frolic with my Fronkeys from here to eternity.
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.
When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
These are islands in time – with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
I don’t even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don’t want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
Man’s moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
If you live to be 100 years old, what you’ve done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you’ve done here will echo in eternity.
Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.
Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That’s how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.
On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you’ve ever known, and nothing is lost. That’s what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.
Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.
It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature.
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she’d be with Dad again.
If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.
It’s not my light to begin with, in a sense; it’s the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.
Life is short. Eternity is long.
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
I propose to build for eternity.
When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity.
“Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else,” says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.
Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator.
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.
Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life. It will not only bless and guide you during this life, but it will also have a direct bearing on your life throughout eternity.
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
I want to know that I have affected people for eternity. I believe I am. I believe once someone knows Christ as their personal savior, I’ve affected eternity. I matter 10 billion years from now.
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
We’re not a product of time. We are a product of eternity.
This is earth again, the earth where I’ve lived and now will live once more … I’ve been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.
Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.
This club is for members only. But once you join, membership lasts for an eternity.
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?
Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time’s swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
But there are wanderers o’er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor’d ne’er shall be.
If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life – you can’t stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.
Gush Etzion must be part of Israel for eternity.
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry–he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
The present moment is where eternity exists.
Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
You’ve been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, you can honor the temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body’s needs, and treating it with dignity and love.
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
So there’ll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee
Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it’s blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn’t working can be painful.
The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It’s that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
Eternity is really long, especially near the end.
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there’s only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.
This life is a dressing room for eternity – THAT’S ALL IT IS!
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.
Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.
Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have.
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.
Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.
The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.
They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other’s dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.
Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.
One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.
habit is our idea of eternity.
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th’ eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam’d? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost… Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn’t happen.
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke
Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!
Our death is our wedding with eternity.
We’re going to fellowship in eternity. We know that because that’s all who’s going to be there – is believers. What does God want us to do here? Practice – learning how to love, learning how to fellowship here.
The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity – which all of us are.
I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.
Such words as ‘God’ and ‘Death’ and ‘Suffering’ and ‘Eternity’ are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.
Serials are for money, movies are for eternity and theatre is for self- satisfaction.
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.
Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity
I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.
How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come. To receive the blessings of the sealing that our Heavenly Father has given to us, we have to keep the commandments and conduct ourselves in such a way that our families will want to live with us in the eternities.
You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don’t need a spaceship to travel there. Most of the worlds are non-physical. And it’s all God; it’s all eternity
I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.
You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind … there’s a lot you can love.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas – the idea of eternity.
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we’re not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
If I would have been in a different world Like I frequently am when I see you Oh I might have missed All the ways you try to give If only you knew what you do to me Sometimes I think about eternity If it would have been another time I wonder what you would of had in mind
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
The past, the future: – two eternities!
Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You’ll like it!
What is this eternity to me without you?
What is the infinity of my domains?
Empty ringing words,
A spacious temple – without a divinity!
What is the infinity of my domains?
Empty ringing words,
A spacious temple – without a divinity!
Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life’s most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it’s rekindled, one day in eternity.
Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God’s love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!
To ask somebody to sit down and watch 30 minutes’ worth of an Internet video – on the Internet, that’s an eternity.
Let me say that for comfort, there is no thought more full of sweetness than that of an eternal God engaged in Christ Jesus to His people; to love, and bless, and save them all. One Who has made them the distinguished objects of His discriminating regard from all eternity, it is the eternal God.
What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
Eternity is a ham and two people.
The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.
Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there’s still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.
You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason – and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity–the endless flow of life and death–than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.
In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
The Summer King stroked her cheek with his thumb. “Can you offer me your fidelity? Your heart and your body and your companionship for eternity? Do you want my fidelity? Either love me or kiss me goodbye, my Summer Queen.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice – but as yet unstained.
The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity
The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman’s an angel!
What the creeping crud is that?” [Percy] demanded. “You’re inside a giant glowing chicken-man!” “Hawk!” I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They’d probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.
Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks of the importance of the individual as a child of God. It speaks of the importance of the family and the eternity of the marriage relationship.
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Venice is eternity itself.
I’m not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn’t in this world as believers, it’s in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment.
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt…
but a find;
not a greeting…
but a proclamation;
not an outward fashion…
but inward grace;
not a day…
but an eternity.
but a find;
not a greeting…
but a proclamation;
not an outward fashion…
but inward grace;
not a day…
but an eternity.
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you’ll see eternity.
To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?
The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it’s very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast’ry.
For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.
I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You’d just tick and cross, whereas if you’re an English teacher, you’ve got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology. It takes an eternity, it’s insane!
Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.
Parallel lines meet in eternity but
Parallel lives meet for tea
Parallel lives meet for tea
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
Remember, Angels are both God’s messengers and God’s message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.
Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.
It’ll take you eternities to get rid of me,’ she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I’ll never get rid of her – I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.
Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom’s cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity.
All at Once Is What Eternity Is.
The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it’s worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity
The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity – a crash, an illness, some shock to the system – to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you’re living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said “Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.”
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.
The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
I can be by myself because I’m never lonely, I’m simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.
There is no such word as ‘too late,’ in the wide world — nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity — shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life’s ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, ‘It is too late!’
Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.
I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.
For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.
Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that’s how you’ll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.
Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall never lose the door.
Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.
Reading the features you would get the impression that this year’s crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.
There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.
Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal men may live in eternity.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
My bits of time play with eternity.
Time’s violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
From Here to Eternity’ happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it’s like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
Eternity ended ten years ago.
Too easy to lose the way. Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you are and where you should be. Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.
Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are – that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense – the Self as eternity.
There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.
Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
I do not want to have the feeling of writing ‘for eternity’, so to speak.
And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won’t stop until I find you, I promise.
Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
Remember that I will be here’, he said resolutely. ‘For an eternity (…). I would wait for you for an eternity.
In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That’s all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma – until all attain perfection.
And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.
Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.
I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.
There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life …for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call ‘influence’ …yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
Forever has no meaning when you’re living in the moment. I wasn’t ready for that moment to end.
Existence for eternity could get a little boring… especially towards the end.
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I’m talking and you’re listening, is eternity.
Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in the win or loss column. Lives will be lost. Eternities will be shaped. Destinies will either be discovered or dismissed. Dreams will be attained or relinquished.
If we haven’t learned to be worshipers it doesn’t really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It’s like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it’s raining today and it’s going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.
If there is a great white throne judgment in which all unbelievers are going to be judged and sentenced to an eternity in hell, shouldn’t that motivate us right now to share Christ with as many people as possible?
The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.
It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.
I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.
The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.
It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.
The school of awareness is the school of mysticism. Mysticism is the experience of eternity, of that which lies beyond the physical phenomenal experience.
If you could live in the moment, you would see the flavor of eternity and when you metabolize the experience of eternity, your body doesn’t age.
Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
‘Mormonism’ has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.
There would be no wedding for me. No bridal hopes. Not with Seth, not with anyone. Those things were lost to me forever. There was only an eternity alone, no lifelong lovers, only those I shared a night with…. – Georgina
Living simply means concentrating on what’s important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
And in addition to its practical uses, it would seem to work for cosmetic purposes. This powder would make my very skin glimmer for eternity.” Henry frowned. “Not eternity,” he said, but then he brightened. “But I could make you up another batch whenever you please!” “I could shine at will!” Magnus grinned at Henry.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Every burden prepares you for eternity.
The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.
How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth’s most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
Time is eternity begun.
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?
But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.
The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and is ordained of God.
Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don’t improve our minds; we don’t refine all the aspects of our being.
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
Genius is eternal patience.
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and, as such, transcends every other interest in life.
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
I am a moment illuminating eternity….I am affirmation…I am ecstasy.
You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)
I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. – By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
We have this recurring dream that we’re human beings, that we have bodies, that we’re in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.
Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts.
Pray for ‘all men.’ We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
A moment is a concentrated eternity.
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.
Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn’t it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.
Who sings of all of Love’s eternity
Who shines so bright
In all the songs of Love’s unending spells?
Holy lightning strikes all that’s evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
Hear the music of Love Eternal
Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
Who shines so bright
In all the songs of Love’s unending spells?
Holy lightning strikes all that’s evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
Hear the music of Love Eternal
Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.
He’s never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
Time, though in Eternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
A year is an eternity in politics – though less than a moment in history.
I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just not part of my religious makeup.
Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates – more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts – an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.
Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won’t be here long, so don’t get too attached.
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.
Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble, simple prayer at least each morning and evening to express thanks and to seek divine guidance.
God doesn’t promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.
I’m extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.
Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.
Nature is our friend – trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans – without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,–these are some of our astronomers.
it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,–till the heart be touched. That touch creates us–then we begin to be–thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.
Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.
But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God’s desire, but man’s own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.
Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.
loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it’s roots in the great silence of eternity.
Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.
There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity
Even the most casual events are connected to God’s purpose for His people from all eternity.
When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one’s shoulder for eternity.
Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.
For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence?
I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think.
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.
Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man’s natural sentiment in the face of death.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You’re one little ant on a hill. You’re part of life, but you’re not the whole thing.
Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God’s perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!
Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
Every time we go to sleep, it’s a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. – As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass… you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one’s companion. Any man who will make his wife’s comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come
He who dies for his country will live in eternity.
I want eternity. I was born for greater things.
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
The Jew – is the symbol of eternity. … He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.
The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.
Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.
Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.
This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
You cannot conquer Time.
I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don’t last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.
It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.
The dream is already ended and we’re already awake in the golden eternity.
Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment.)
So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour’s term
To practice for Eternity.
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour’s term
To practice for Eternity.
You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it’s overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed – you no longer exist.
Joy springs from a life lived with eternity’s values in view.
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit’s melancholy And eternity’s despair; And they heard the words it said,- “Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!”
For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.
Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.
I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It’s only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.
In eternity everything is just beginning.
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who’ve gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.
A moment is a mighty thing
Beyond the soul’s imagination;
For in it, though we trace it not,
How much there crowds of varied lot
How much of life, life cannot see,
Darts onward to eternity!
Beyond the soul’s imagination;
For in it, though we trace it not,
How much there crowds of varied lot
How much of life, life cannot see,
Darts onward to eternity!
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
We who are alive at this moment are only an infinitesimal part of something that has existed for eternity and will continue when there is no longer anything to show that earth existed. Still, we must feel and believe that we are all.
I was always a little bit afraid because I found out at a very early age that once you make a record, all the mistakes and all the good things are there for eternity.
Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.
Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.
We’re going to serve in eternity. We’re not going to sit around on clouds; you know this whole idea of heaven is wearing white robes with angels and play a harp. To me, that would be hell. I can’t think of anything more boring.
In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.
Most people can’t bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life, not a feeling of being spaced out, but in touch with the moment and with eternity.
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.
She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.
Brothers, what we do in life……..echoes in eternity.
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can’t think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.
Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.
Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be in love with the wind. It is an intimate lover. It enraptures you. It blows you through eternity.
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today…But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.
We are citizens of eternity.
but that’s alright because now everything’ll be alright & we’ll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we’re thru we’ll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
God’s grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.
Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that (“et avec cela”, Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self (“moi”, Fr.) so hardly worthy (“digne”, Fr.) of it.
I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.
Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.
When you … see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. … You will be so glad and joyful. … When you are qualified and purified, … you can endure the glory of eternity.
You weren’t put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
Why did you make it so hard for me? I’d rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.
In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.
The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men’s rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.
The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Forever is composed of NowsВ— ‘Tis not a different timeВ— Except for InfinitenessВ— And Latitude of Home
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
SГ¶ren Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith… Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
Forget the threat of Hell’s infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait – for an eternity
Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Love is the symbol of eternity.
To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
God, you are my refuge into eternity
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
What I value most next to eternity is time.
If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity
The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that’s to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.
You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.
Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, – an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other.
In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.
My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
In your mid-20s, you think you’ll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that’s not going to be the case.
Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)
Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each meditation. Chanting “Aum” puts you in harmony with the vibration of Eternity. “Aum” opens the gateway to the infinite highway of light.
Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.
No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children’s menu. I have no doubt that the children’s menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order Г la carte. Or don’t you serve fish to minors?
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
I have a strong will to love you for eternity.
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:
Such a Way as gives us breath:
Such a Truth as ends all strife:
Such a Life as killeth death.
Such a Way as gives us breath:
Such a Truth as ends all strife:
Such a Life as killeth death.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.
Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who’s strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.
I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
The soul awakes … between two dim eternities – the eternal past, the eternal future.
Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.
One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us… to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.
That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
We are not alone.В Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a вЂgreat cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says.В It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see.В What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one’s life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.
It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.
Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they’re gone.
There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.
Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead
I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond “My teacher is better than yours” or “My meditation form is better than yours.” It’s not Ford versus Chevy. But it’s rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.
It’s ironic that in our culture everyone’s biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don’t mind, because I have eternity to rest.
In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.
Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.
The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death … but is, like God, always present.
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened.
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
I don’t believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It’s one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.
Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It’s in there, but we lose touch with it.
… the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn’t live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
You’re going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It’s very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
A father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
There are tons of people I’d like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won’t go into that!
Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness
Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family–they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,… then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift… every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
Architecture aims at Eternity.
Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes ’till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.
The most important is to prepare you for eternity.
What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can’t stick in an hour with God down here?
Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.
Pressed against her I can hear eternity — hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered “Hush”.
Sun’s up, uh huh, looks okay –
the world survives into another day,
and I’m thinking about eternity.
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.
the world survives into another day,
and I’m thinking about eternity.
Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.
Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.
If I’m wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you’re wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.
Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.
People need to know there is life after salvation! Salvation is not only about eternity. Salvation is the open door to an abundant earthly life in which we enjoy the love and direction of an active God!
There is only eternity. That’s our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn’t even exist, except in our own minds.
The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings.
A lot of the strength of an RPG world lies in its foundation: its systems, lore, and when appropriate, its magic systems. While there are elements tied to ‘Project: Eternity’ that at first glance seem to be classic fantasy, that’s intentional – we do want to recreate some elements of a High Fantasy experience.
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you’re an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but – you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity
One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, ‘I’m bored’
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
Tis light translateth night; ’tis inspiration Expounds experience; ’tis the west explains The east; ’tis time unfolds Eternity.
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity
What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all
eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.
age means nothing. If anything I feel that I’m still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination
Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity’s values in view?
Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
I’ll ride my bike all the stinkin’ way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce
The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. ‘Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity. The present is no more, by the time you have said, ‘This is present.’
How vast is eternity! – It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
Buying, possessing, accumulating–this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount–doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion–doing it so that one’s spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we’ll reunite for all eternity.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
There are tons of people Id like to freeze for all of eternity, but we wont go into that!
I didn’t have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.
Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you’re not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.
Eternity bids thee to forget.
Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.
Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.
Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.
It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence – a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth…. Architecture aims at Eternity.
Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God’s great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
Our mindset is not such that we will remain in power till eternity.
Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being … and then from there to eternity.
If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator – I thought in despair – and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
The light would show (if it could harden)
Eternities of kitchen garden
Eternities of kitchen garden
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.
The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.
A human life is a schooling for eternity.
You just promised me eternity, you know. I can make you live to regret it.
We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.
For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day-and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
In a world gone astray from God there is no peace, but it also lacks charity, which is true and perfect love… Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love, that is, charity, will last for eternity.
And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we’re going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future….is precisely the present moment.
If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
But an eternal Now does always last.
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.
Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.
Internet is exemplary for me. I do not want to have the feeling of writing ‘for eternity,’ so to speak. The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me.
My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. В All this stuff is temporary. В Money, fame, successtemporary. В Even life is temporary. В Jesusthat’s eternal.
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
You’ve decided to love me for eternity, I’m still deciding who I want to be today.
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: ‘You speak,’ he said, ‘the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
Sunday doesn’t just prepare us for the week ahead – it prepares us for eternity.
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.
In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.
Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being’s road, Eternity by term.
Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss;
Heaven once a week;
The next world’s gladness prepossest in this;
A day to seek;
Eternity in time; the steps by which
We climb above all ages: lamps that light
Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich
And full redemption of the whole week’s flight.
Heaven once a week;
The next world’s gladness prepossest in this;
A day to seek;
Eternity in time; the steps by which
We climb above all ages: lamps that light
Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich
And full redemption of the whole week’s flight.
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Time is the image of eternity.
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.
I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate, and the days when joy was delirious.
The ultimate fulfillment of God’s mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.
The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free.
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
Jesus clearly taught that the majority of humanity will spend eternity in hell, and only a few will find the exclusive way to salvation.
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, “Lord help my unbelief.”
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea
mixed
with the sea
You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won’t fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.
I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities.
When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March– after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn’t one of them. Well, this world isn’t one either.
Cold hearts don’t bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.
Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it’s God. You are God.
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
There wasn’t a single day in which the world was created. It’s created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.
In the context of eternity, time doesn’t matter.
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.
In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live—time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.
As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.
That is the road we all have to take – over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.
Dissolution means envelopment in Eternity.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, ‘From Beer to Eternity’ is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
Time is the Mercy of Eternity
Notice to step out of time into eternity.
Everything starts with one person… I don’t care if you’re 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.
All eternity is in the moment.
Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.
Poets talk about “spots of time”, but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.
The blessing of God enriches the soul for eternity while that given by the world enriches the body temporarily.
Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
His words filled my heart to the brim. I loved him in a way I’d never be able to express in words. He was part of me. And I was part of him. Tethered together for the rest of eternity.
All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.
Keep eternity before the children.
Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined.
We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.
To me – the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now…that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Time is given us to use in view of eternity.
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
Power is God’s hand or arm, omniscience is God’s eye, mercy is God’s delight, eternity is God’s duration, but holiness is God’s beauty!
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives… and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.
The image of Eternity–the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I’ll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity
Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is – what in Zen we call “suchness”.
God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.
Jesus has thrilled and satisfied the heart and mind of the Father for eternity. He must be all-sufficient for you.
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany…. One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
When we arrive at eternity’s shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we’ll sing, ‘You’re beautiful’
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we’ll sing, ‘You’re beautiful’
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Zen opens a man’s eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
What I question about the afterlife is how many people just accept it and don’t question it, because I think living for an eternity would be much worse than dying.
If you think you’re going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won’t bother now, I think it’s a terrible, a terrible mistake.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.
Our impulses toward instant gratification aren’t to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn’t a worthy goal. We’re created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.
Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end?
Mormonism truly was a part of my every decision since the day I was born. It taught me to serve others and to feel comfort about the next life. Who doesn’t want to live for eternity and have a ‘mansion in heaven’? It sounded like a rad deal to me when I was in my teenage years.
Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.
Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
Not if Their Party were waiting,
Not if to talk with Me
Were to Them now, Homesickness
After Eternity.
Not if to talk with Me
Were to Them now, Homesickness
After Eternity.
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man’s blindness, O be Thou our aid.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
Cricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity
Wonder blasts the soul – that is, the spiritual – and the skeleton, the body – the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment’s revision exhaust the eternal.
Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.
A painter’s hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.
Once we harness ourselves to love, it carries us to eternity.
Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me ‘ed in after one day at xmas, I’d rather be mush.
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.
Bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not…yet, I occurred.
Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.
You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity’s in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.
None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities.
As o’er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor’d spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.
When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.
The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.
Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person’s total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.
I respect self-giving and I’ve tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.
Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.
Eternity is the Absolute present.
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass–the earth–into the second–eternity.
We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle,–Christ liveth in me.
If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.
There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment.
Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.
‎This I know… That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.
In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know – silly things.
I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
Women joked amongst themselves: ‘Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It’s for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- “you were born and then I married you”- but men are fools.
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
You don’t choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.
Immortality–twin sister of Eternity.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
In that instant when I had seen… the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.
I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.
The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.
Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead
Is great Apollo; and the happier he
Is great Apollo; and the happier he
We’re going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we’re here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.
When God writes our names in the ‘Lamb’s Book of Life’ He doesn’t do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God.
We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure – the eternal present, for it is always now.
Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we’re exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods – it is the business of us all, here and now.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity.
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow–the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.
Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.
There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form’d for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God’s mercy and Christ’s merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband’s arms, and to lie down with Him.
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.
Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of ‘now’ with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.
Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.
