Quotes About Eternity

Of the Father's love begotten, Ere the worlds began to be, He is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending He, Of the things that are, That have been, And that future years shall see, Evermore and evermore! —Translated from a poem by AURELIUS PRUDENTIUS (Roman, ca. AD 348–415)4

She imagined she could pull Time like taffy, stretching it longer and longer between her hands until the finest point had been reached, the point just before breaking, and she could live there. A point at the center of time with no going forward, no going back. Clasped in this way, without speaking, walking into no discernible ending, she could almost believe they tread on time.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Time means nothing to me.

I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.