Quotes About Eternity

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.