Quotes About Eternity

So you vampires living forever," I said. "You must need lot of hobbies to keep from going completely mad. My grandma swears by knitting. Do you knit, Francis?" "I do not," said Francis. "Ah," I said. "Do you crochet?" This time he didn't bother to answer.

Let's examine what prize that is one more time; no more direct sunlight ever again, no more laughter. You get eternity, but you don't have the sense of humor to enjoy it! Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Luke had a theological reason for this, for in his view the story he was telling shall not come to an end before the end of all history.

?raa??a ????? ?o?. Mind has no end.

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

Granted, I told Her, that your grand design is undoubtedly something very nasty and bad, eventually, in the long term. But you're immortal and I'm not, so if I stop you now, you'll just wait till I'm dead and start all over again, so really, what's the point in me interfering?

I have traveled millions of miles, speaking to Christians. I have counseled privately with hundreds of them about their beliefs and lifestyles. What I have found has to be one of the most tragic ironies of all time: A tiny group of believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

As the river enters into the ocean, so my heart touches Thee.

There the whole sky is filled with sound, and there that music is made without fingers and without strings; There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease. Kabir says: "If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life, you will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss.

I offer myself to an image: the great being beyond boundaries and beyond beyond

The world is dying, but knows none how to Die: But, whosoever knows how to Die, dies not again.

The word for paradise is actually "garden" or jannah in Arabic. Paradise is not just something that comes after this earthly life. The Qur'an says, The Garden will be brought near to all those who are in a state of Godconsciousness (Surah ash-Shu'ara 26:90). To all those who deepen in their remembrance, deepen in presence, The Garden will be brought near. (p. 101)

There is only so much one can do for the dead without joining them. The Caravan from Troon

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

I said to Life, 'I would hear Death speak.' And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, 'You hear him now.'

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Du glaubst, es ging mir um die Unsterblichkeit?" Ein raspelndes Kichern. "Darauf seid allein ihr Menschen so versessen. Keine andere Kreatur lebt in solcher Furcht vor ihrer eigenen Vergänglichkeit.

Wie hoch muss man die wunderbare Macht der Bücher schätzen, da wir durch sie sowohl die Grenzen der Erde als auch der Zeit unterscheiden können. Wir betrachten in ihnen, wie in einem Spiegel der Ewigkeit, die Dinge, die sind, und die Dinge, die nicht sind.« Richard de Bury, Philobiblon, 1344