Quotes about Eternity

But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

She saw the years to come stretch before her like an autumn afternoon, filled with resigned memory. Life to her could never more have any eagerness; it was a solemn service of gratitude and patient effort. She walked in the presence of unseen witnesses—of the Divine love that had rescued her, of the human love that waited for its eternal repose until it had seen her endure to the end.

Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

The most glorious city of God.