Quotes About Eternity

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Any day stands equal to the rest.

Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.

The beginning is the end.

The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report.

The oneness of all wisdom may be found, or not, under the name of God.

Gods live past our meager death. We die past their ceaseless living.

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life

That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god nor man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living the others' death, being dead in the others' life.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I.

Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.

311eschatology lives in the heart of all.

The gospel gives us a standard by which we can judge phenomena and events; it is an absolute measure which enables us to determine the value of the present life; it is a guide to show us the way in the labyrinth of the present world; it raises us above time, and teaches us to view all things from the standpoint of eternity.

The truth is of more value than empirical life: Christ sacrificed his life for it.

250Christianity is no mere revelation of God in the past, but it is, in connection with the past, a work in the midst of this and every time. All other religions try to obtain salvation by the works of men, but Christianity makes a strong protest against this; it is not autosoteric but heterosoteric; it does not preach self-redemption, but glories in redemption by Christ alone. Man does not save himself, and does not save God, but God alone saves man, the whole man, man for eternity.