Quotes about Eternity
Where [God] is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.
— William James
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
— Heinrich Heine
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
— Leonard Ravenhill
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
— Leonard Ravenhill
Dead to the world and all its toys! Its idle pomp and fading joys! Jesus, my glory be!
— Leonard Ravenhill