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Quotes About Eternity

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Just over yonder, beyond the river, There is a City of pure delight, Where many loved ones are congregating With palms of vict'ry in robes of white. Just over yonder, there'll be no heartaches, No lonely days will ever come. There'll be no crying, there'll be no dying, Oh, what rejoicing when we get home. Just over yonder, I'll soon be going To see my Savior upon His throne; And hear a welcome ring out through heaven, Oh, weary pilgrim, this is your home.
~ Tricia Goyer
We just think we are in the land of the living, and that we're going to die, but when we believe in God the opposite is true. We're in the land of the dying, and because of Jesus we're going to the land of the living. The land where there is no more pain, no more tears, and where we'll be with Christ for eternity.
~ Tricia Goyer
And Jaina hears him whispering to her in her dreams, telling her that no one you love ever really has to die--if you don't want them to...All you have to do is hold a place for them in your heart.
~ Troy Denning
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
~ Tryon Edwards
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
~ Tryon Edwards
when asked how he could remain so calm in a clutch situation: "Ten million years from now, when the sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen snowball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.
~ Tug McGraw
She's a little different after two thousand years, that's all," Darkstalker said hurriedly. "This is better, though. She always worried about the future too much. Now she won't worry and we can just be happy and everything will be fine.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.
~ Patrick O'Brian
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae
~ Patrick O'Brian
How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
~ Paul Bowles
Everything's explained by the constant intervention of Allah. And whatever happens had to happen, and was decreed at the beginning of time, and there's no way of even imagining how anything could have been different from what it is.
~ Paul Bowles
Even the smallest measure of time is greater than the greatest measure of space. Or is that a lie? Does it only seem so to us, because we can never get it back?
~ Paul Bowles
Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.
~ Paul Bowles
What words are there to tell how long a night can be?
~ Paul Bowles
of mankind through His Son before the creation. And
~ Unknown
Lord the Almighty God is saying to us: 'the world' is the time from the beginning of this universe to very day it ends.
~ Unknown
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.
~ Paul Carus
Between always and never
~ Paul Celan
Le temps est le péché de l'éternité.
~ Paul Claudel
they're saving perfection for us in the next life.
~ Unknown
To die is to depart, to go away from these things forever and become one with the generations that have preceded us since the beginning of time, a whispered memory in the bones and whiskers of the generations to come.
~ Paul Gallico
Nothing is something. In fact, out of nothingness flows all somethings. (Goodbye Phone)
~ Unknown
You're never too old to be young.
~ Paul Palnik