Eternity Quotes

• Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

  

  James Stewart
  • Concerned
  • Believer
  • Evening

• Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Death
  • Worst

• If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Ends

• What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Time
  • God
  • Doe

• Isaac's humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man's face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter's corduroy or bishop's broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Humility
  • Illusion
  • Hazards

• 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.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Change
  • Life is
  • Reborn

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

  

  William Ames
  • Matter
  • Creatures
  • Makers

• You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

  

  William Rose Benet
  • Friendship
  • Self
  • Truest

• Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Death
  • Heaven
  • Secret

• Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Eternity
  • Empire
  • Colony Of Time

• One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mother
  • Stars
  • Holy

• We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

  

  Amy Carmichael
  • Eternity
  • Sunset
  • Victories

• That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Indicate

• Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joy
  • Eternity
  • All Things

• Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Heart
  • Value
  • Goal

• We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Help
  • Understood
  • Spiders

• There is a sense in which the Christian's life on earth is a dress rehearsal for heaven. Not in terms of costumes and theatrics, but in terms of worship and devotion to the One we will worship for all eternity - the Lamb who sits on the throne of heaven.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Christian

• Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Soul
  • Training
  • Destiny

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Eternity
  • Product

• The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Image
  • Eternity
  • Throne

• I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them.

  

  Coleman Barks
  • Happen
  • Core
  • Marvelous

• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  

  William Penn
  • Time
  • Death
  • Sympathy

• I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heaven

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