Top 94 Nothing Is Eternal Quotes
#1. To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.
Marie Bashkirtseff
#2. If the stars in the sky are not fixed, then nothing is fixed. Nothing is eternal, all is temporary and ever-changing." She turned away from the stars, meeting his gaze. "Nothing is fixed, my lord. No course is so set it cannot be changed.
Anthony Ryan
#3. Nothing comes into existence nor does anything disappear. Nothing is eternal, nor has anything any end. Nothing is identical or differentiated. Nothing moves hither and thither.
Tom Hoover
#4. Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
John H. Aughey
#5. We've done nothing to earn His love and can do nothing to forfeit it. His love in Christ is eternal and unconditional. Nothing can separate us from His love, as the apostle Paul put it so eloquently. Do we really believe what Paul says to us here?
Jerry Bridges
#6. Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.
John Huston
#7. In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.
James Buchan
#8. Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be
John Frusciante
#9. This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad ... Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#10. I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness
James Lovegrove
#11. The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.
Joseph Campbell
#12. The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
Ellen G. White
#13. In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#14. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." ... "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." JOHN 6:63, 68 (NKJV)
Andrew Murray
#15. The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
Annie Besant
#16. I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.
Pete Seeger
#17. Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
Elisabeth Elliot
#18. If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since nothing violent is eternal . It follows, therefore, that the
earth is not moved with a circular motion.
Thomas Aquinas
#19. Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Ralph Cudworth
#20. What's the point of eternal life if one spends it doing nothing? There is none. It's waste of eternity.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#21. Alternately in our lives come black and white.
Nothing is visible through the silent dark hole:
no light, no life, no meandering respite
in the tunnel of death, journeys the eternal soul.
Taranum
#22. We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.
Bruce C. Hafen
#23. Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
Baruch Spinoza
#24. Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#25. Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
#26. Even if a man has everything - money, power, the key to eternal life - he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.
Latrivia S. Nelson
#27. Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
Vidya Balan
#29. He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything.
Rama Swami
#30. The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
Cornelia Funke
#31. Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
Kim Elizabeth
#32. Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die .
Giordano Bruno
#33. There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz Kafka
#34. Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.
Jerry Falwell
#35. The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
Veronica Roth
#36. Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
Baruch Spinoza
#37. Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
Ramana Maharshi
#38. Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing.
Milan Kundera
#39. I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
Marsha Blackburn
#40. If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John Le Carre
#41. When you start with legal holiness, you have eyes only for the cross, and you never see that in Jesus Christ, nothing less than the eternal trinitarian life of Father, Son and Spirit is being lived out inside human existence. You never really get the staggering meaning of the incarnation.
C. Baxter Kruger
#42. Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#43. Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will talk of socialism or anarchy, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, which all comes to the same thing, they're the same questions turned inside out.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#44. Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!
Munia Khan
#45. Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#46. We who must die demand a miracle.
How could the Eternal do a temporal act,
The Infinite become a finite fact?
Nothing can save us that is possible:
We who must die demand a miracle.
W. H. Auden
#47. My life is now nothing more than a flickering candle. The wax is melting and the flame is a small, quivering spark. Soon it'll simply vanish, and I'll finally collapse into the black hole of eternal peace.
Margaret McHeyzer
#48. Originality has nothing to do with producing something ' new' - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one's origins, it is the dance of the eternal return ... and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#49. Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
Alan Watts
#50. Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
William Law
#51. Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.
Geoff Ryman
#52. We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
P.D. James
#53. All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.
Parul Wadhwa
#54. During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.
Harriet Doerr
#55. There is nothing eternal but that which loves and can be loved, and love is ever climbing towards the consummation when such shall be the universe, imperishable, divine.
George MacDonald
#56. This view of a living nature where man is nothing is both odd and sad. Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man; you feel you are carried into a different world from the one you were born into.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#57. If we are co-eternal with God, then it is not God's creation of the human out of nothing that defines our essential relationship to him. It is His freely made choice to inaugurate and sustain loving relationships, and our choice to reciprocate, that are at the core of our relationship to the Divine.
Terryl L. Givens
#58. Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
John Pearson
#59. Love, and nothing else, was eternal. Love is the Lord by whom we escape death.
Elizabeth Goudge
#60. Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.
Donald S. Whitney
#61. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.
Mark Forsyth
#62. What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.
Rene Char
#63. While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#65. It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval
#66. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.
Ramana Maharshi
#67. Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do it again) is the difficult call to action in a redeemed heart. It has an eternal impact and it can change everything.
William Branks
#68. The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.
Francis Chan
#69. Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#70. Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
Jack Kerouac
#71. There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
Isaac Asimov
#72. Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
#73. Perhaps death is nothing but a calm and eternal dream
Rafael Abalos
#74. Time is short and life fleeting and that nothing matters except that which is eternal.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#75. Our lives are like ripples in the vast ocean of consciousness; like waves we rise and fall, yet we never disappear, for the ocean is infinite and eternal, and a wave is nothing but that ocean.
Deepak Chopra
#76. Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don't even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn't mine: it's me.
Fernando Pessoa
#77. Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
Deborah Moggach
#78. Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.
Otto Weininger
#79. When you stop all thought, the battle is won. Everything is still and peaceful. You will come to see the eternal voidness of all things. You will see that nothing is, really.
Frederick Lenz
#80. There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
Ramana Maharshi
#81. Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Rossiter W. Raymond
#82. All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.
Edward Abbey
#83. Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#84. Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Abraham Cowley
#85. This is the true reason, that my dear Jenny and I, as well as all the world besides us, have such eternal squabbles about nothing. - She looks at her outside, - I, at her in - . How is it possible we should agree about her value?
Anonymous
#86. Nothing is better for being Eternal
Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.
Louis Zukofsky
#87. For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.
Antonin Artaud
#88. An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
John Stott
#89. Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.
Stephen Charnock
#90. The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.
Frederick Lenz
#91. God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
Martin Luther
#92. But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
Tadao Ando
#93. Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
James Clerk Maxwell
#94. Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...
Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
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