Eternity Quotes - Page 5

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.