Quotes About Eternity

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

He that believeth not shall be damned.

A book is the only immortality.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

All things change, nothing is extinguished.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to,' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No, it is better not', he said, 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee, All things are passing, God changeth never.

Time brings all things to pass.

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.