Quotes About Eternity

How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

Fill this cup to that love that never changes, never! Fill this cup to the love that goes on living forever! To the love that has been purified by earthly woes and at last with everlasting bliss... divinely glows!

An eternity is any moment opened with patience.

Ciertamente el bien y la misericordia me seguirán todos los días de mi vida y en la casa del Señor moraré por largos días.

On it I read most of Anthony Trollope and all of Edith Wharton, both of whom are dead and can't be written to. Too bad; I'd like to tell them their books are as contemporary as they were when they were written.

To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.

Um ano é um século quando se espera o amor.

It is not merely the likeness which is precious . . . but the association and sense of nearness involved in the thing . . . the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever!   —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

O amor, qualquer que seja o tempo, quaisquer que sejam os obstáculos, dura sempre.

She read the Gaelic and her eyes misted. 'My heart is your heart. Ever and always.

remember that nothing, good or ill, stays forever.

My heart is your heart. Ever and always.

it's good for the soul to stop and take a long look now and again at what really lasts.

ring after ring

Love, whatever the time, whatever the obstacles, lasts.

FOR NOW, FOREVER

Well, I was wondering if love really last like that, through death and time. It's the only thing that really lasts.

Art is long, and time is fleeting.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" —C. S. LEWIS

If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.

Bad things will happen to good people, but a good God has for us a good end, for these bad things will bring about good results: "Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (2 Corinthians 4:17).

In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.

For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.

this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. (Pensees, #148)