Quotes about Eternity

St. Eucherius on that sunrise! "Think how much more the splendor of the light will be for us in the future, if it shines upon us so brilliantly now. In what magnificent form will the light shine on eternal things, when it shines so beautifully now on what is passing away!

Think how your life would be changed if you passionately longed for and lived every day as if this would be the moment Jesus would return!

Heaven is light to me, light-hearted, and full of holy laughter.

My favorite definition of heaven comes from a Benedictine sister, who told me that as her mother lay dying in a hospital bed she had ventured to reassure her by saying, "In heaven, everyone we love is there." The older woman had replied, "No, in heaven I will love everyone who's there.

He resolved to never lose hope - not as long as breath was left in his body. And when death did come, he would release life in hope of the resurrection.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

The Future… something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Time and tides wait for none

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world