Quotes About Eternity

Alexander of Whitby taught that the universe is like a tapestry only parts of which are visible to us at a time. After we are dead, we will see the whole and then it will be clear to us how the different parts relate to each other.

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.

You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

same attraction and the same vertigo of the absolute

Had it only been a year? It had seemed much longer. Sometimes it had seemed like a lifetime. But maybe all lifetimes weren't measured in hours, days, and years.

If there was one thing I learned in the last twenty-four hours, it was how short life is – how long death – and how there was never enough love to go around.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

In great deeds, something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate the ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them....

perhaps I should just conclude with the antagonism between the belief that history never repeats itself and the belief that it always repeats itself, in the very circular eternity of this table.

Our boredom was ongoing, a collective boredom, and it would never die because we would never die.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams.

I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.

Love is further than death.

Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye… 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51–52

What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Death is but a doorway to another path.

Vivir aquí es como si el tiempo no pasara, como si pasara sin poder tocarme, como si me tocara sin cambiarme

Circles are absolutely vital.

Cuánto tiempo es para siempre? —preguntó Alicia. —A veces sólo un segundo —respondió el Conejo Blanco. LEWIS CARROLL