Top 100 Eternity's Quotes
#1. He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
William Blake
#2. You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.
Frederick Lenz
#3. The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets
To rise, ascend, and culminate above
Eternity's horizon evermore.
Abraham Coles
#4. When we arrive at eternity's shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful'
Phil Wickham
#5. By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes.
Bryan Chapell
#6. And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#7. Some things are just the blink of eternity's eye while others last forever.
Patrick O'Scheen
#8. Even through all the universes and eternity's I will always love you. Until I see you again.
Callie Anderson
#9. Eternity He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise - WILLIAM BLAKE
Rene Daumal
#10. He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
#11. Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
Leonard Ravenhill
#12. I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kissable Milk Light of Everlasting Eternity's true and perfectly empty nature.
Jack Kerouac
#13. Sometimes the world slows and you notice every small thing, as if you stood between two beats of eternity's heart.
Mark Lawrence
#15. Know all men, he said, time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
James Joyce
#16. Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard
#18. We're infants on a sandy beach, crawling on the edge of eternity's ocean.
R.P. Nettelhorst
#19. William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7
Sogyal Rinpoche
#20. Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.
Soren Kierkegaard
#21. He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, 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
#22. Beauty combined with wantonness frequently ends in the drawn twitch, fixed eye and helpless limbs of life-in-death. It is Nature's revenge on the outraged body, - and do you know, Eternity's revenge on the impure Soul is extremely similar?
Marie Corelli
#23. To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
Frank Herbert
#24. Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.
Frederick Lenz
#25. They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.
Libba Bray
#26. What does eternity matter to me? To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands - that is the supreme separation!
Albert Camus
#27. I'm uncontrollably in love with Vivian. In such a short amount of time she's infiltrated my thoughts, cast a spell over my body, and wormed her way into the deepest part of my heart. A day without her would feel like a lifetime without breath, an eternity without light.
Jewel E. Ann
#28. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#29. This is worth an eternity of torture," he whispered. "I'm quite certain I love you more than anyone I've ever loved, in any life. I may have lost my soul when I was turned, but it's been replaced by you, Cassandra. I'll never let you go.
L.J. Kentowski
#30. You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to travel there. Most of the worlds are non-physical. And it's all God; it's all eternity
Frederick Lenz
#31. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.
David Baldacci
#32. It's as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity.
Carrie Ryan
#33. The dark has teeth and it will bite,
It feasts begins on Sorry Night.
When cold and fear are intertwined,
They'll chew up your heart and feed on your mind.
Where have the souls gone? What do they see?
The gateway to Hell's eternity.
Simon Holt
#34. I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.
Barack Obama
#35. Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.
Frederick Lenz
#36. A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.
Sara Paretsky
#37. Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.
Mari Mancusi
#38. You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.
Frederick Lenz
#39. It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
Donald Cargill
#40. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
C.S. Lewis
#41. Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.
Emily Dickinson
#42. If a woman's vagina was hell fire, then alot of sex maniacs would prefer to spend their eternity in hell.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#43. Just as millions of angels participated in the dazzling show when the morning stars sang together at creation, so will the innumerable hosts of heaven help bring to pass God's prophetic declarations throughout time and into eternity.
Billy Graham
#44. We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner. and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.
T. S. Eliot
#46. Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
J.P. Donleavy
#47. You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.
Annie Chapman
#49. Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.
Colin S. Smith
#50. Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.
Alistair Begg
#51. Death was confused. "That's senseless! I am the doorway to eternity.
Mary Ann D'Alto
#52. This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Tom Wolfe
#53. Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
Tom Stoppard
#54. Commitment. That's what it's all about. Taking that convenant together. Bonding yourselves for all eternity. Isn't that what we are all looking for? Maybe Alexander wasn't ready to do that with me, but it's obvious he isn't ready to do that with you, either.
Ellen Schreiber
#55. In eternity it will be asked whether you may not have damaged a good thing, in order that you also might judge with them that did not know how to judge, but who possessed the crowd's strength, which in the temporal sense is significant, but to which eternity is wholly indifferent.
Soren Kierkegaard
#56. Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty (S. Charnock). It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin's dominion.
Arthur W. Pink
#57. Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.
C.S. Lewis
#58. We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability,
Mike Huckabee
#59. Nothing can separate you from God's love, absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!
Hannah Whitall Smith
#60. It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.
David Crowder
#61. God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths - the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.
Billy Graham
#62. Will you take my Master's house on a lease for all eternity, with nothing to pay for it, nothing but the rent of loving and serving Him forever? Will
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#63. In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
Brian O'Driscoll
#64. Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.
Robin M. Bertram
#65. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
William Shakespeare
#66. Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
Andre Malraux
#67. It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Lauren Kate
#68. 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.
S. Truett Cathy
#69. God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.
James MacDonald
#70. I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.
Anne Rice
#71. It's morning again, little hope, and the world's drying of with fresh-laundered sunshine. Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.
Kolbein Falkeid
#72. The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.
Orson F. Whitney
#73. It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.
Matthew Henry
#74. That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#75. O Thou whose Name is sweetest remedy
And whose remembrance heals our soul's disease
With Thee each moment is Eternity
A drop from Heaven that consoles and frees.
Frithjof Schuon
#76. Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.
Barbara Kingsolver
#77. Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God's love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!
Roma Downey
#78. See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.
Frederick Lenz
#79. I have not been called
to the wisdom of this world,
but to a God who's calling out to me
And even though the world may think
I'm losing touch with reality,
it would be crazy
to choose this world over eternity.
MercyMe
#80. Love that comes between the naivete and awakening of youth satisfies itself with possessing, and grows with embraces. But Love which is born in the firmament's lap and has descended with the night's secrets is not contented with anything but eternity and immortality.
Kahlil Gibran
#81. A Sonnet is a
moment's
monument,
Memorial from the
Soul's eternity
To one dead
deathless hour.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#82. I know now that I have to speak from eternity into time, from the lasting joy into the passing realities of our short existence in this world, from the house of love into the houses of fear, from God's abode into the dwellings of human beings. I
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#83. I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.
Colleen Houck
#84. What's a year in comparison with eternity? what's a day? an hour? a second? Such measures have meaning only for a heart that's still beating.
Amin Maalouf
#85. Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.
Kris Kidd
#86. Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.
Grant Morrison
#87. Buying, possessing, accumulating
this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount
doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion
doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
Robert Herrick
#88. Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God's love.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
Karl Kraus
#91. When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.
John H. Groberg
#92. There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world - nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity - shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life's ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, 'It is too late!'
Dinah
#93. One day we will see our animals again in eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all God's creatures.
Pope Francis
#94. In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either.
Marilynne Robinson
#95. But that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
Jack Kerouac
#96. All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
Leopold Von Ranke
#98. Let's examine what prize that is one more time; no more direct sunlight ever again, no more laughter. You get eternity, but you don't have the sense of humor to enjoy it! Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.
Justine Larbalestier
#99. In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.
Edgar Cayce
#100. The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.
Frederick Lenz