Quotes About Eternity

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

Dallas McCarver is my angel. Not a day goes by where I don't think of him.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

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.

Dead men tell no tales.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

You see, the goal of the Christian life is not simply to get us into heaven, but to get heaven into us!

My dearest Lord, be thou a bright flame before me, a guiding star above me, a smooth path beneath me, a kindly shepherd behind me, today and for evermore. —St. Columba of Iona

God has given us the capacity for developing moral character, the ability to become glorious beings that can live in communion with the Triune Reality of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for eternity.

the land of fadeless day lies the city foursquare; it shall never pass away and there is no night there.

If you ask me do I love you, I have to tell you that I have never loved you, not even now, not tomorrow. In this way, I can begin to love you again and again because there is no past. This is the way the moon unbutton the stars as it passes overhead. The way even the most distant galaxies continue to tug on us. This is the way I love you. from "If You Ask Me

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon.

All are equal in the grave.

I might be dead and damned for all eternity but I'm not addle-brained. I remember.

When I live with God in my heart, my future is to live in the Heart of God.

Richard Linklater

have pity upon those hungering ones immediately around you who must find life through your sermon or they will never find it at all. If some of your hearers sleep on they will of necessity wake up in eternal perdition, for they hear no other helpful voice.