Eternity Quotes - Page 6

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.

Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment.)

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Our dreams, like the disciples’, are always too small. We are here to fulfill God’s dream—that we will bring Him glory through a remarkably abundant life. That’s how we find our greatest personal fulfillment, now and for eternity.

It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.