Eternity Quotes - page 6

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. View quote
Euripides
What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy? View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance.... The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat. View quote
Robertson Davies
Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy - not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness - but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity. View quote
Thomas Chalmers
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you. View quote
Thomas Chalmers
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness. View quote
Thomas Chalmers
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is the image of eternity. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! View quote
Max Müller
My bits of time play with eternity. View quote
Antonio Porchia
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life. View quote
Kathleen Norris
QUEEN Thou knowst tis common all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common. View quote
William Shakespeare
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. View quote
Bette Davis
somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time. View quote
R. S. Thomas
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's. (John Selden)
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. View quote
Meister Eckhart
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession. View quote
Edith Stein
The Heavenly City outshines Rome, beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. View quote
Nelson Mandela