Eternal Quotes
-
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
-
Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
-
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
-
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
-
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
-
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.
-
But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
-
I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
-
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
-
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.
-
It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.
-
To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.
-
I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
-
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
-
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
-
Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.
-
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.
-
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
-
God and all attributes of God are eternal.
-
Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.
-
Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.
-
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
-
The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
-
Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.
