Quotes About Eternity

of eternity.

Many robins got in the church from the trees and roosted among the congregation. They were drunk from some berries and fallen persimmons. Come into the mead hall out of the chill. In Viking history, once a Christian described human life as the flight of a bird through the mead hall. The outerness afterward, eternity.

Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it.

Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

Look back at the eternity that passed before we were born, and mark how utterly it counts to us as nothing. This is a mirror that nature holds up to us, in which we may see the time that shall be after we are dead.

The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while longer, making it possible for them still to praise him.

Probably most people who read the Bible think of Sheol as a Jewish kind of Hades, a shadowy place where everyone goes and all are treated the same, a banal and uninteresting netherworld where nothing really happens and people are, in effect, bored for all eternity. But in fact, in most passages of the Bible where Sheol is mentioned, it may well simply be an alternative technical term for the place where an individual is buried—that is, their grave or a pit.

So far as we know, humans have always imagined there must be life beyond. Possibly, in part, that is because individual humans have always—as long as they have been able to think—known nothing other than existence, making it very difficult indeed to imagine a never-experienced state of nonexistence.

This is the only verse in the entire Old Testament that uses the term "everlasting life.

belief in only one God, the creator of the world, who created everything out of nothing; belief in his Son, Jesus Christ, predicted by the prophets and born of the Virgin Mary; belief in his miraculous life, death, resurrection, and ascension; and belief in the Holy Spirit, who is present on earth until the end, when there will be a final judgment in which the righteous will be rewarded and the unrighteous condemned to eternal torment

In Arius's view, everything except for God himself had a beginning. Only God is "without beginning.

cycle of reincarnations

The end of time will not bring a salvation of the flesh; it will bring a deliverance from the flesh.

He came to believe in the preexistence of souls. In this view, not only did Christ preexist his appearance on earth as a human, so did everyone else.

Death shows that the summum bonum of life is to continue living it.

Lord created me at the beginning of his work,                  The first of his acts of long ago.

throne, O God, endures forever and ever.                  Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;                  You love righteousness and hate wickedness.

Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation "RIP" ("Rest in Peace"). Ancient Romans had something comparable, a seven-letter abbreviation that spoke volumes: "I was not; I was; I am not; I care not." The meaning is clear. There was no existence before birth. A person existed only after being born. After death there once more was no existence.

humans are made up of two competing entities, the mortal body and the immortal soul

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Oh! Moeten wij eeuwig lijden of altijd vluchten voor wat mooi is?

Time belongs to the Tower.

Nothing was eternal, except maybe for the mind of God, and even at thirteen I had my doubts about that.