Quote by Herman Melville

“I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?”

— Herman Melville

“Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I…

— Jessica Khoury

“Though my life is like grass that grows one day and withers away the next, God is so permanent, so unbending, so eternal, He…

— Michael J Heil

“What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is…

— Catherine Crowe

“Only after living through all eternity and assuring myself that you were mine every instant, only then would I return to you and live…

— Anonymous

“One doesn’t cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“But this is my contentment, that I've lost what I never needed and what I need I can never lose: these two things, universal…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to…

— Mother Teresa

“Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; to age in soul and see our beloved die and…

— H. Rider Haggard

“But of God you can never have a sufficiency. The more you have of God, the more you desire. If you could ever have…

— Meister Eckhart

“Man's dearest possession in life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as not to be…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“I’m not building a castle or a monument; I’m building a soul and a family. I’ll tell stories all my life, writing on napkins…

— Shauna Niequist