Quotes About Eternity

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Force us to yield. 'Twill never be too late To sue6 for chains and own7 a conqueror. Why should Rome fall a moment ere her time? No, let us draw her term of freedom out 95 In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty; And let me perish, but in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.

Now the soul says, 'Lord, where shall I go? You have the words of eternal life.' [John 6: 68] Here he centers, here he settles. It is the entrance of heaven to him; he sees his interest in God.

These shall bring the measurements of the righteous, and the cords of the righteous to the righteous, that they may rely on the name of the Lord of spirits forever and ever.

none shall be destroyed before the Lord of spirits, and none can be

my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

He proclaims to you peace in the name of the world to come; for from there peace has proceeded since the creation of the world, and it shall be with you forever and forever and ever.

Apart the lovers could neither live nor die, for it was life and death together..

Nor will I live longer so, for though I will not say one word of penance for my love, which is there and remains forever, yet from now on I will be separate from him.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Fold your arms round me close and strain me so that our hearts may break and our souls go free at last. Take me to that happy place of which you told me long ago. The fields whence none return, but where great singers sing their songs forever.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

love is an attitude toward reality – usually of someone finite toward something infinite.

Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here's the place to have the experience.

Have you ever felt time slow so much that that it almost appears to stop? Ever listened to a clock when the next tick seems to take forever to follow the last tock?

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin had it right: Heaven's a place you've never visited but once you're there you immediately feel at home.