Quotes About Eternity

the deathless breath of the city.

As you are woman, so be lovely:As you are lovely, so be various,Merciful as constant, constant as various,So be mine, as I yours for ever.

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

The pain of growing old lies specifically in the fact that part of us does not grow old.

The new is forever new, but our powers to appreciate it quickly weaken and age. The new is forever the same, but our language for understanding it changes with the shadows. The truth is forever the same, forever new.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

People perish. Books are immortal.

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (Creation, Preservation, Destruction, Quiescence).

All things in the sun are sun.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

We offer no rewards except those which God Himself has promised to those that love Him, and lay down their life for Him; no promise of peace, save of that which passeth understanding; no home save that which befits pilgrims and sojourners who seek a City to come; no honour save the world's contempt; no life, save that which is hid with Christ in God.

Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

The smallest duty, if Christ assigns it and we accomplish it, is grander in God's eyes than building the pyramids or acquiring a vast domain.

Stand up and bless the LORD your God forever and ever! – Nehemiah 9:5

To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. – 1 Peter 5:11

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. – 1 John 2:17 NIV

Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38–39