Quotes about Eternity
The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.
- Brother Lawrence
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
- CS Lewis
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
- Charles Spurgeon
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
- John Piper
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
- Muhammad Ali
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
- Marcus Aurelius
He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.
- Marcus Aurelius
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Cicero