Quotes About Eternity

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.

You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

I don't see here on this side; but I will see on the other side. I know I'll get to see. I know I'll get to walk those golden streets and I'll get to see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and I'll get to see the Lord. Oh yes I will.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs my writing of a certain connectedness to my time, but potentially might allow it to make sense to people who are not in this time.

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.