Eternity Quotes

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.

We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

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 your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Life is short. Eternity is long.

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

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.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and 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.

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.

And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

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 thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.

Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.

Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

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.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

All at Once Is What Eternity Is.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

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.

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.

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.

Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast unknown eternity.

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

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.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

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.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.