Quotes About Eternity

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

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Oh, stop. You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.

We are like blades of grass or trees of the forest, creations of the universe, of the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe has neither life nor death. Vanity is the only obstacle to life.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the fountain. These are but drops; but God is the ocean.16

Death breaks the union between the body and the soul but perfects the union between Christ and the soul.

Remember in the midst of your most grievous afflictions that the worst state of a believer is better than the best state of an unbeliever.

the true focus of a healthy eschatology, namely, "the return of the King.

Jesus and the apostles didn't think that eschatology was irrelevant two thousand years ago

And if it once is so, it is so always; no one can go back, and he whom God has forgotten, is forgotten for ever.

To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women and young people who were buried there, one might, if one were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep.

A man will only be as long as his life but his name will be for all time.

When you protect and keep friendships with you till you're old, you'll take them into eternity.

Friendships are older than friends.

In the realms of the spirit, friendship is unlimited. You could be bonded to a million friends at the same time.

until only infinity remained of beauty

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

They could hear the little river prattling over its stony bed, as it had done since the dawn of time.

These things that were between us, these and a myriad others, a myriad myriad, these remain of her, but what will become of them when I am gone, I who am their repository and sole preserver?

This is the mortal world. It is a world where nothing is lost, where all is accounted for while yet the mystery of things is preserved; a world where they may live, however briefly, however tenuously, in the failing evening of the self, solitary and at the same time together somehow here in this place, dying as they may be and yet fixed forever in a luminous, unending instant.

Yes, another April; in a way, in this story, it is always April.

Yes, tings endure while the living lapse

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Thus in the minds of the many does the one ramify and disperse. It does not last, it cannot, it is not immortality. We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.