Quotes About Eternity

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live forever, there, in the Whole,

just as in the world of plants and animals nothing ceases to exist, but continually changes its form, the manure into grain, the grain into a food, the tadpole into a frog, the caterpillar into a butterfly, the acorn into an oak, so man also does not perish, but only undergoes a change. He believed in this, and therefore always looked death straight in the face, and bravely bore the sufferings that lead towards it

trouble lasts an hour, but life lasts for ever!

long. I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I see, for that alone is true. All else is false.

To love life is to love God.

All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that.

No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in....

He aqui como acabo mi vida. Nos moriremos y no quedara nada de nosotros. Por que tenemos que pecar, pues?

If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a wise man about eternal life: "What will happen to us when this world comes to an end?" He answered, "I do not need the world, and I am not afraid of its end, because I know that my soul is eternal." God

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Basta que pensemos, queridos hermanos y hermanas, en la vida que llevamos, basta que pensemos que continuamente despertamos la colera de Dios, y hacemos sufrir a su divino Hijo para que comprendamos que no podemos ser perdonados. Una ruina espantosa nos amenaza, sufrimientos eternos nos esperan. ¿Y como salvarnos?... ¿Cómo huir, hermanos, de este incendio terrible? ¡Ah! Ya arde la casa y no hay salida que nos dé paso!

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death.

This is the way we summon one another, but it is not the way we call upon the Name. We stand in rags, we beg for tears to dissolve the immovable landmarks of hatred. How beautiful our heritage, to have this way of speaking to eternity, how bountiful this solitude, surrounded, filled, and mastered by the Name, from which all things arise in splendour, depending one upon the other.

When you were neither seed nor child And I was nothing too

Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?