Eternity Quotes
1859 Eternity quotes by 1060 unique authors
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Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind…
— Anthony Mary Claret
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Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.
— Stephen King
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The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as…
— Matthew Simpson
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
— Alfred de Vigny
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges…
— Sri Aurobindo
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This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.…
— Paulo Coelho
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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.
— Heidi
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Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not…
— Robert Southey
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
— Saint Augustine
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Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use…
— Gerard Majella
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Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot…
— Max Lucado
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A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy,…
— Max Lucado
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I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.
— LeAnn Rimes
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Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want…
— Albert Mohler
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Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping,…
— Ken Wilber
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To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.
— Richard J. Foster
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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and…
— Elise M. Boulding
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Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in…
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
— Ellis Peters
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The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity…
— Ole Hallesby
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