Quotes About Eternity

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

That all of God's men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

In the life of one man, never The same time returns.