Quotes about Eternity
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
- William Faulkner
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
- William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills
- William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last for ever.
- William Hazlitt
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
- William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.
- William Lane Craig
As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
- William Lane Craig
The only way an actual infinite could come to exist in the real world would be by being created all at once, simply in an instant. It would be a hopeless undertaking to try to form it by adding one member after another.
- William Lane Craig
For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." [2 Cor. v. 10]
- William Law
I love to live on the brink of eternity.
- David Brainerd
Oh, if ever I get to heaven, it will be because God will, and nothing else; for I never did any thing of myself, but get away from God!
- David Brainerd