Quotes about Eternity
Immortality is but ubiquity in time.
— Herman Melville
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.
— Herman Melville
The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.
— Hilaire Belloc
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.
— Ellen White
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
— Emily Bronte
Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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.
— Joseph Addison
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.
— JC Ryle
There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.
— John Piper
It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.
— Jack Kerouac
If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.
— Charles Spurgeon
Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
— Francis Chan