Quotes About Eternity

God creates only one world. Human beings have spoilt the Creator's work, the Son has redeemed the old creation through his Cross, the Spirit has sanctified it. This one world will be enough for God in eternity, and for us, whom he has created, redeemed, and sanctified, this God will be enough.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

Her face was a face to go with one through the years, and to live still in one's dreams when the sap of life is gone.

When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.

We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death.

We not only have today; we have all the yesterdays we are capable of remembering and all the tomorrows we can envision.

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,—the eternal past, the eternal future. The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown; and the voices and shadowy movings which come to her from out the cloudy pillar of inspiration have each one echoes and answers in her own expecting nature.

Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?

The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today

in the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.

Adiós, querida niña! Las brillantes puertas eternas se han cerrado a tus espaldas; no veremos más tu dulce rostro. ¡Ay de los que hemos visto tu entrada en el cielo, cuando despertemos para encontramos a solas con las nubes grises de la vida cotidiana, pues tú te has marchado para siempre!».

What a sublime conception is that of a last judgment!" said he,—"a righting of all the wrongs of ages!—a solving of all moral problems, by an unanswerable wisdom! It is, indeed, a wonderful image.

In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia.

He'll go to torment, and no mistake," said little Jake.

Mas'r," said Tom, "I know ye can do dreadful things; but,"—he stretched himself upward and clasped his hands,—"but, after ye've killed the body, there an't no more ye can do. And O, there's all ETERNITY to come, after that!

He closed his eyes, but still retained his hold; for, in the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.

there'll be the same God there Chloe that there is here

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

I like the idea of being with someone forever, being married to them.

He says the sort of thing that people say. The light. The movement. The ceaseless change. But I think that's to get it precisely wrong. Isn't it the other way around? That it never changes. That you are staring at a vision of eternity, sometimes sunlit, sometimes furious, but always there. Gazing at you gazing at it. I