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Quotes About Eternity

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
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.
~ Mother Angelica
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
~ Daniel Barenboim
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
~ Ray Comfort
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
~ John Wooden
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
~ James Huneker
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
~ C. S. Lewis
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
~ John Updike
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e
~ Alexander the Great
The great words never die... and so does the soul of its author.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
~ Epicurus
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
~ Ram Dass
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
~ C. S. Lewis
It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
~ Jonathan Edwards
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
~ Lucian
Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
~ Graham Greene