Quotes About Eternity

Well, I know that you would love to go to heaven, but you know that you're just too afraid to die. And I know that you would love to know the answers, but to you, the truth is just another lie.

time is a river that washes the world away.

k?lo'smi lokaksayakrt pravrddho lok?nsam?hartumiha pravrttah.

The preachers have got it completely backward. If life is eternal, then life is cheap. Value does not come from surplus; it comes from rarity. Prices rise as supply drops. The reality that our lives are brief is what makes them precious. The fact that they will end makes them more meaningful. "Ultimate purpose" is no purpose at all: it is the surrender of purpose. It is the pretense that faith equals meaning.

I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity.

Without time, nothing happens. Without space, nothing is.

That is the thing about infinity: it takes things that are otherwise very unlikely and makes them all inevitable.

There is perhaps no topic more widely discussed among theologians, philosophers and scientists of nearly all times and all cultures than the origin of the Universe.

Heartache is the life force of my people, the agent that ripples eternity and causes history to arc into big crashing waves. Heartache may pass and disappear. Heartache is still there, it is merely invisible, plotting. Heartache is the constant. Heartache is the through line, the central core on which we all radiate, the agent of change. Heartache can neither be created nor destroyed, only transmuted. Heartache is the score and the game; heartache is our eternal currency.

What matters most in life isn't anything that you have done or can do. It's what God chooses to do for you through Jesus Christ.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.7 — C. S. Lewis

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever Keats

I like thinking," she added, "that the forest sounds the same as it did millions of years ago, and it will sound the same millions of years from now. I find the endlessness comforting. It puts my small problems into perspective. Like looking at the stars at night and realizing that everything I worried about all day is utterly insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe.

For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. —Psalm 57:10

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I believe that there is something connecting us ... Something that was here before we got here and will still be here after we're gone. I've begun to believe that all of our consciousnesses are bound up in that greater consciousness. ... An animating presence .... [pp. 205-206]

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

A permanent present—what a haunting phrase.

no matter what happens to our bodies o our minds, our souls remain whole.

Oxford University Press researchers, "time" is the most common noun in the English language.5

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.