The Eternal Quotes

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.

He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations.

If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?

God existed before He made anything else, and He Himself was never made. God is eternal.

L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

The marines gave me an eternal discipline.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness

Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

I would like eternal life. I would like to have the power to choose who lives and dies.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.