Quotes about Eternity

Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

God loved me before I actually was.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

Things had been falling down since the beginning of time.