Quotes About Eternity

Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.

The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.

A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

We probably aint supposed to be together, but I wonder if my love of her could last forever.

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.

God and Hell both damn it,

swath of time that stretched out

Death," she whispered. "It isn't a punishment, you know, Lizzie. It's the victory we race toward. We're born, and God draws us to himself.

Time is like constellations that swing in a great circle in the sky's vast bowl. There is no beginning, no end; all returns again and again, forever.

Time is a great circle;

Det er bare det vi har mistet, som fremstår som evig uforanderlig.

When bones and flesh have finished their business together, we lay them carefully, in positions they're willing to keep, and cover them over. Their eyes and ours won't meet anymore. We hope.

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

Energy is the single thing of absolute value created in the Universe.

Mathemusic is the currency of the Universe.

Chasidah. Angel. I love you beyond all measure. That is the only real truth.

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.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.