Quotes About Eternity

Cilv?ka acs sp?j p?rv?rst mirkli m?ž?b? - viens acumirklis pasaka vair?k nek? gara saruna.

Ils étaient beaux à cette époque, remplis d'une certitude amoureuse qui respirait l'éternité.

Comprendía el poder cicatrizador de la belleza. Frente a un cuadro no somos juzgados, el intercambio es puro, la obra parece entender nuestro dolor y nos consuela a través del silencio, permanece en una eternidad fija y tranquilizadora, su único objetivo es colmarnos mediante las ondas de lo bello. Las tristezas se olvidan con Botticelli, los miedos se atenúan con Rembrandt y las penas se reducen con Chagall.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

I am for God. I don't think there's any hope for the world except in God.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

God is not being unkind to us by not sharing… the point is that we are not built to understand the big picture, precisely because we live in time and God does not. If we could see the end from the beginning, and understand how a billion lives and a thousand generations and unspeakable sorrows and untold joys are all woven into a tapestry of perfect beauty, then we would be God.

Because God lives forever and I will not, I can experience the several different times of my life knowing that they are part of a bigger picture that I cannot see but which is visible to a good and wise God who sees the whole as beautiful.

Ecclesiastes makes the… astonishing claim that living well here and now in this world depends on time travel being possible—not to us, but to God…God will retrieve every single injustice, every single time, and every single activity…Knowing that God is outside of time and sees it all and will, in the end, bring to judgement both the righteous and the wicked, stops me needing to be in control of everything that happens to me.

For Paul, it is inconceivable for God to accomplish redemption for people and not bring that accomplished redemption to its consummated end in glorification.

Those without Christ often abandon themselves to eating and drinking because sometimes it looks as if that's all there is to do before we die. But those who love Christ cherish eating and drinking because it looks a little like what we will do after we die.

While he, the immortal One, would not be overcome by death, he would die for the eternal life of us mortals.

If you truly believe in a supernatural afterlife, to be sure, nothing can really disappoint you. But there is no consolation in being the last Mohican.

For the sum of everything was a circle, and the circle was labelled Zero

Only one life 'Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last.

Without beginning, without end, Without past, without future. A halo of light surrounds the world of law. We forget one another, quiet and pure, altogether powerful and empty. The emptiness is irradiated by the light of the heart and of heaven. The water of the sea is smooth and mirrors The moon in its surface. The clouds disappear in blue space; the mountains shine clear. Consciousness reverts to contemplation; The moon-disk rests alone.31

Lao Tzu's wisdom: If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.111 He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.112 Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity. 113

To see the smallest means to be clear. To guard wisdom means to be strong. If one uses one's light in order to return to this clarity one does not endanger one's person. This is called the hull of eternity.64

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe.

How can anything that exists from eternity have a cause, since that relation implies a priority in time and a beginning of existence?

with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.