Quotes about Eternity

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Even old, your husband is the young man you remember now. Even dead, he is the man you remember, not as he was but as he is, alive still in your love. Death is a sort of lens, though I used to think of it as a wall or a shut door. It changes things and makes them clear. Maybe it is the truest way of knowing this dream, this brief and timeless life.

But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.

There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you may be able to know and speak about that intersection of time and timelessness, or time and eternity.

The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

But the earth speaks to us of Heaven, or why would we want to go there? If we knew nothing of Hell, how would we delight in Heaven should we get there?

It was like falling in love, only more than that; we knew too much by then for it to be only that. It was knowing that love was what it was, and life would not complete it and death would not stop it.

For many of the churchly, the life of the spirit is reduced to a dull preoccupation with getting to Heaven.

Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way to the lasting world and will not leave, whatever happens.