Eternity Quotes - Page 17

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

Time is eternity begun.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.

I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

We are citizens of eternity.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.