Quotes About Eternity

The cradle is shallower than the grave.

Notre vie est déjà pleine de morts, et pour chacun le plus mort des morts est le petit garçon qu'il fut. Et pourtant l'heure venue, c'est lui qui reprendra sa place à la tête de ma vie, rassemblera mes pauvres années jusqu'à la dernière, et comme un jeune chef ses vétérans, ralliant la troupe en désordre entrera le premier dans la maison du Père.

Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise,"…Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just.

We ask for our daily crumb of love. We are given a ton for eternity, which is death.

Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it grieves mothers to tell themselves that, at the very moment it has occurred to them, there already exists a woman who is making her way towards their son from the depths of eternity.

Then he returned to his theme: 'If so many lovers feel the desire to die and more and more die each day, while still in love, it is because love and death are linked by analogies, by underground passages, and communicate. One leads to the other. The one makes the other more acute, more intense. There is no doubt that death is a great stimulant of love. ("Love And Death")

Time feeds on us. We are food for time.

even death has a beginning, that it's simply another of life's journeys.

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?

Adults are children, too, because in every adult's heart, there is a child's life that will stay there for eternity. So please listen to children, because when you don't, it is like not listening to yourself.

Heaven is to be in God at last made free. —Evelyn Underhill1

But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb.

Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

Psalms 90:4: "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

Peter 3:8: "Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.

The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years

When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every red weal or white pucker brings to my mind's eye that eternal fire, and the writhing masses of the damned, among whom I must expect to spend eternity.

What is human is immortal!

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.