Quotes About Eternity

You Can't Live If You Can't Die

Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness?

The soul is not controlled by our perception of space or time.

Father's house are many mansions …" I believe this to mean the different planes within the Spiritual Realms that our souls are drawn to (after the death of the human body)

One: God, beginning, source (Gen. 1:1). Two: witness,

These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and holy ghost. They ate crackers and wine or grape juice, believing that they were eating the son's body and drinking his blood. If they believed strongly enough, they would live on forever after they died.

Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor

Each attractive form that shows its face to you, Destiny will soon steal it from the eyes of you. Go and give your heart to someone who in all turns of existence Always has been with you and always will be with you.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." —C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

en el Cantar de los Cantares, 8, 6-8.

The waters hold all heaven within their heart.

I came away from that time in my life with a special sense of a couple of verses in second Corinthians: "'For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.' " . . . . I try to look for the things which aren't seen.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower,' " he quoted from Blake. " 'Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour,' " she replied.

We are not citizens of this world trying to make our way to heaven; we are citizens of heaven trying to make our way through this world. The Lindisfarne, via The Anglican Digest

Peace . . . and plenty . . . graciously provided by God who created us for himself, and who loves each of us devoutly, devotedly, steadfastly, forever.

De eeuwigheid is het ogenblik waarvan je zegt, dat zal ik nooit vergeten.

The excellent becomes the permanent.

He must live again, he should, he did.

Throughout the ages, humans have had a need to mark the time and place when and where people make the final stop on their journey from this world to the next.

When the body dies, where will they go, those migrant birds and prayer calls, as heat from sheets when taken from a dryer? With voices of the ones I loved, great loves and small loves, train wheels, crickets, clock-ticks, thunder – where will they, when in fragrant, tumbled heat they also leave?

The Sanskrit word for this circular chain is samsara. Samsaric existence is endless, so long as we live in ignorance.

Ho?emo li mi, kada jednom umremo, postati zvijezde - te malene nakupine svjetlosnog praha na nemilosrdnom polju crnila? Ili samo odlazimo pod zemlju i tamo trunemo?

Today is tomorrow, and present is past. Nothing exists and everything will last. There is no beginning, there was no end. No depth to fall, no height to ascend. There is only this moment, this flicker of light That illuminates nothing, but oh! So bright! For we are the spark that flutters in space, Consuming an eternity of a moment's grace. For today is tomorrow and present and past. Nothing exists and everything will last.

Life to you, and everlasting glory.