Quotes About Eternity

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

With This Ring I give my all to you Now and my whole life through With this ring

One famous implication of this doctrine is that though we distinguish in thought between God's eternity, power, goodness, intellect, will, and so forth, in God himself there is no distinction between any of the divine attributes. God's eternity is his power, which is his goodness, which is his intellect, which is his will, and so on. Indeed, God himself just is his power, his goodness, and so on, just as he just is his existence, and just is his essence.

For some we loved, the loveliest and the bestThat from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest.

Ah, my Belovèd, fill the Cup that clearsToday of past Regrets and future Fears:Tomorrow!—Why, Tomorrow I may beMyself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane.

Edward George Bulwer Lytton

Lord, crown our faith's endeavor with beauty and with grace, till, clothed in light forever, we see thee face to face: a joy no language measures; a fountain brimming o'er; an endless flow of pleasures; an ocean without shore.

Writing fixes the evanescence of sound and holds it against death.

He could never stand still but now Something that had once been my son Lay there restless spirit Who left the house one rainy night And never returned Lost boy Who will never be found again Anywhere but eternity

to be Thine evermore; youth mingled with thy youth, Age with thine age; in thy grave mine; above, Spirit beside thy spirit; - this the love God teacheth man to pray for!

Augustus wasn't driving the wagon very fast because he had his family together again and all time was now spread out before him over the valley and the mountains forever and ever.

Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame.

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

But it is hard to make anything like a truce between these two incompatible desires, the one for going on and on over the earth, the other that would settle for ever, in one place as in a grave and have nothing to do with change. Suppose a man to receive notice of death, it would be hard to decide whether to walk or sail until the end, seeing no man, or none but strangers; or to sit - alone - and by thinking or not thinking to make the change to come as little as is permitted. (pp 161)

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

In eternity, there is no 'time' for anything to begin or end, therefore, past, present, future represent a linear progression that goes nowhere.

Those who know God, know eternity. Those who know eternity know salvation because they know death does not exist. Here is the ultimate freedom to be found. To find it, all you have to do is let go.

Where is freedom? asks the student. 'In God' replies the teacher. For it is only here we can taste the eternal and the eternal is the only thing that is free.

Our lives are a blink in the scheme of things. But God's name exists forever! Those who hitch their wagon to this know freedom, for they have glimpsed the eternal. At the end of our long journey, there is peace.

In eternity, there is no time for anything to happen, yet everything that has a beginning, has an end in time.