Quotes About Eternity

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

Men die but an idea does not.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Only He who made man makes man happy.

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.