Quotes About Eternity

What would you yourself do to remain forever young? What would you confess to the great and silent god that watches in the dark?

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra, que me llevare el blanco día

God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us. —St. Augustine

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I wouldn't mind dying — it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

spiritual discipline frees us from the gravity of this present age and allows us to soar with the saints and angels.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (Psalm 90:2)

We are anchored in the Father's presence for eternity—and Jesus at his right hand perpetually intercedes for his Church.

is heir to all the heavens and numberless worlds, but we are his treasures. The redeemed are worth more than the universe. We ought to be delirious with this truth.

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death's handmaidens.

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.

I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.

The next time Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future.

Instead of dissipating our life in mere commotion, let us endeavor to recollect it so that our activity may be more profound, more consistent and lasting, and directed to eternity.

Death is the only vantage point from which a life can be truly measured.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo. I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care. It is the most common text found on Roman graves.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.