Quotes About Eternity

Little seed! thy hidden virtue Stirs Time's womb; The bright promise thou art heir to Lights the tomb.

Having no beginning and no end, circles represent the infinite, ergo the divine. Giotto and the pope knew such things by heart.

There were men in those dark ages who could commune with God, and who, by the power of faith, could draw aside the curtain of eternity and gaze upon the face of God, have the ministering of angels, and unfold the future destinies of the world. If those were dark ages, I pray God to give me a little darkness.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.…" The

With no overarching cosmology to guide them, only vestigial formalities, each would have to decide for himself what their friend and neighbor's eternal fate might be.

I'm offering good friends and evil enemies, eternal day and endless night, rousing song and strong wine, hardships, victories, despair, and glory.

This is Chronos devouring his sons. The last maker of history swallows all previous history down. - The Adventures of the Day-Self in the Age of the Machines

We may not like the Jesus of the historical documents; but like him or not, we meet him there as a divine being on whom our personal destiny, both in time and in eternity, depends.

She and I were twins: And should I die this instant, I had liv'd her time to a minute.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.

Gyvenimas, lyg margaspalvio stiklo skliautas, D?m?ja balt? amžinyb?s švies?, Kol šuk?m krenta trypiamas Mirties.

We are most fortunate, my dear Vergil, that we need not marry to ensure our posterity, but can make the children of our souls march beautifully into the future, where they will not change or die.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.

Death is just the shocking end of animation; it is dissolution that is final.

Te recordaré, abuelo. Te recordaré. Nunca se me olvidará lo que me dijiste. Es sólo el miedo lo que es diabólico...

No time is entirely present,

He believed, you know, that it takes a material body, a spiritual body, and a soul, to make a man. Death is simply the slipping off of the outer body, as a husk slips off from its kernel. The deathless frame stands ready then for the soul's untrammeled occupation.

Death comes in an instant, Marcus." I looked at him steadily. "But love lasts forever.

Never is a long time...and none of us lives to see its length.