Quotes About Eternity

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.