Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.
There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.
Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion.
Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being. . . and then from there to eternity.
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church.
We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.