Quotes About Eternity

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He is still loving on His people.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

The olive tree is a tree full of health. It is a symbol of eternity. Of all things, it has peace attached to it.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.