William Blake Quotes
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
Quotes to Explore
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Do all things with love.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.
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Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.
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To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
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In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.
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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
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Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity (...). I would wait for you for an eternity.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
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Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
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More./What for? was a rhyme that deserved to be made more often.
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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.
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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
