Short Eternity Quotes

#1. Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. Life is short. Eternity is long.

Bentley Little

#4. Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.
Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.

Jessica Khoury

#5. 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

#6. Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Thomas Browne

#7. We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.

Robin S. Sharma

#8. Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#9. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

Steven J. Carroll

#10. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

#11. Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

Zygmunt Bauman

#12. Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immortality, he purposed to live each golden moment as eternity - without

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. To wait an Hour - is long
If Love be just beyond
To wait Eternity - is short
If Love reward the end -

Emily Dickinson

#14. The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

#15. We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#16. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#17. God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Jeremy Taylor

#18. Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.

Cornell Woolrich

#20. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

Dante Alighieri

#21. You must live in peace," he told us. "We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark.

David Almond

#22. 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

#23. When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

Samuel Rutherford

#24. Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#25. Time is powerless. An instant could be enough for us and eternity could be too short. We, and only we, decide what time is for us.

Rom Amor

#26. We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them.

Amy Carmichael

#27. 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

#28. Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,
as if the short spring days were an eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. (from the short story The Honorary Shepherds) ... you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building?

Gregory Maguire

#30. O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone!

Timothy Salter

#31. Life's short when compared to eternity, but eternity is only worth it because of life.

Scott Thompson

#32. A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal, that stretched each minute to an excruciating eternity.

Gustav Meyrink

#33. Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind.
Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you.

Kassandra Sims

#34. If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

John Donne

#35. Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

John Donne

#36. Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

Dagobert D. Runes