Quotes About Eternity

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.

A]nd the unveiled figure Of the self stepping unclothed, sweetly stripped Of its leaf, into starlight, and the shadow of night, The cold water warm around the narrow ankles, The body at its most weightless, a thing so durable It will–like the carved stone figures holding up The temple roof–stand and remember its gods Long after those gods have been forsaken. —Brigit Pegeen Kelly, from "Plants Fed On by Fawns," The Orchard (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2004)

Immortality is not merely what happens after your mortal life is over. It is more important than that. Immortality is what happens when love conquers time-when a person's ability to love others and to act in pure love and goodness stretches beyond death to live forever in the heart of the human race.

Love Conquers Time.

Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.

Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end. I was in love with A Fan's Notes, just like my dad was. And I was in love with my dad, just like I was in love with A Fan's Notes. I wanted both of them to last forever.

I am your forest, your earth, your eternity. I am your life. I am your death. I am all things forever and always. Love me. Love me. Forever love me.

Is there not room in your heart for both? They both spread peace, charity, and goodwill." "Only Jesus can save your soul from eternal damnation." A smug smile spread across the reverend's face. "Can Santa Claus do that? Don't think so." Santa let out a sigh. "We all serve God in our way." Then, almost to himself: "Sometimes whether we wish it or not.

Life and hope must cease together.

Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

The goal of the spiritual life is to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can possibly be, in this life and throughout all eternity.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

When we are stone will the world recall us?

What shall we taste like to the future?

The seasons will go on without us and other poets will speak of love

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

The most important doctrine I can declare, and the most powerful testimony I can bear, is of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His atonement is the most transcendent event that ever has or ever will occur from Creation's dawn through all the ages of a never-ending eternity.

We are one sour breath of night and day, then dirt and stars, but we're holding the new morning.

Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its pages aflame. For that single moment we love them ever after, although they soon turn to ashes.

bore a hidden grudge against Mother for the ease with which she moved on past the loss of Father to daily routine. She never loved him, I thought, and because Father was not rooted in the heart of any woman, he also could not grow into any reality and floated eternally on the periphery of life, in half-real regions, on the edges of actuality.

When we face real people with eternal souls balanced between heaven and hell, the nobility of preaching both awes us and makes us more aware of our inadequacies (cf. 1 Cor. 2:3).

Our works are made worthy of eternity by virtue of the mercy in him, rather than on the basis of the merit in them.

Whatever is done for man will pass, yet all that is done for God will last.

By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes.