Quotes About Eternity

Tout ce qui fut sera pour peu qu'on s'en souvienne

Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction...

Thou dost not understand the foolish things that creep into the hearts of us white men when we love a woman, not for her beauty alone, but for something that wise men say lies beyond the black gates of death, and the woman who loves and the man who loves shall yet meet again.

God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author.

It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.

Sin separates man from God, and that means death, for it is only in communion with the living God that man can truly live.

His eternity may be defined as that perfection of God whereby He is elevated above all temporal limits and all succession of moments, and possesses the whole of His existence in one indivisible present

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Isn't it too bad Walt Disney didn't live to see this?" "He did see it," Vance replied simply. "That's why it's here.

for you are alive beyond question, like the dazzle on the sea my darling

When my death us do part Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again, Or will it be, as always was, too late?

I've accepted Christ as my Savior.

For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

And he had all the Time in the world…

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.

The one person I am with forever is me. My relationship with me is eternal. So I am my own best friend. I

In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete, and yet life is ever changing.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another. — Marianne Williamson

The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.

All those stars in that big streak that goes over the whole sky? You see them? Those are all the Jews who've died. All of them died and went up in the air, and the stars are the stars that they wore on their coats. The stars on the coats come off when their souls float up and the stars live up in the sky forever.

if love followed them through lifetimes, did hate also follow?

In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity.