Eternal Things Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost.…
— Dante Alighieri
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To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this…
— Bertrand Russell
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If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and…
— Minot Judson Savage
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Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet…
— Teresa of Avila
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The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as…
— Ole Hallesby
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Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
— Charles Spurgeon
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There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
— Boyd K. Packer
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. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass…
— Thomas Cole
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Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
— Thomas Cole
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All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
— A B Simpson
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single…
— William Cowper
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A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— Thomas Aquinas
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
— Saint Augustine
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In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.
— Ellen G. White
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Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes…
— James Hudson Taylor
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Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal…
— J C Penney
Who Wrote These Eternal Things Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Eternal Things Quotes as follows: