Quotes about Eternity
The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10, 000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
— Matt Chandler
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.
— John Ortberg
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.
— John Milton
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
— John Milton
WE know no time when we were not as now..
— John Milton
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— John Milton
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp
— John Milton
The wary fiend stood on the brink of hell, pondering his voyage
— John Milton
For Death from Sin no power can separate
— John Milton
Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day (For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future) on such
— John Milton
whose eye Views all things at one view? He from Heaven's height
— John Milton