Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
we are the lords of all eternity
Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith. . . Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
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.
How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day-and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.
Our dreams, like the disciples’, are always too small. We are here to fulfill God’s dream—that we will bring Him glory through a remarkably abundant life. That’s how we find our greatest personal fulfillment, now and for eternity.