Quotes About Eternity

Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!

what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.

If we will give God time, He will give us timeless souls.

The cost might be prison, for it were better that he should be ''the prisoner of the Lord'' for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell forever.

Is life's span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated with a few Scripture verses?

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.

He felt that in the eyes of the Infinite wisdom and folly are the same, for the Infinite knows them not.

Time, as we all know, passes. Whether it returns in quite the same way is doubtful.

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies? Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Headstone: death's bookmark.

As the human soul approached death, it got more and more restless and more and more energy for wandering, a preparation for all eternity where the old people believed no one would rest or sleep but would range over the earth and between the moon and stars, traveling on winds and clouds, in constant motion with ocean tides, migrations of birds and animals, pulsing within all life and all beings ever created

When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

rip the tongue from the darkness shake the earth with your breathing and explode gray ice dreams of eternity

It was the eternal conundrum. Time passed too slowly, and then it was over too quickly. Hurry up and die.

The Dream of Egypt was Eternity: her odors have the solidity of granite, and endure as long. I

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity.

THE present! it is but a drop from the sea In the mighty depths of eternity. I love it not—it taketh its birth Too near to the dull and the common earth.

It was ending too soon, the way everything did, everything except Ebola viruses and really bad people like psychopaths. Those things never ended.