Quotes about Eternity

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.

if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.

Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly life,— in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them. Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.

The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.