Quotes about Eternity
You were created by God, are on the earth to image and glorify God, and when you die, if you are in Christ, you will be with God forever, imaging and glorifying him perfectly in a sinless state.
— Mark Driscoll
If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Even if our contact with eternal beings is slight, none the less because of its surpassing value this knowledge is a greater pleasure than our knowledge of everything around us.
— Aristotle
The timeless instant passed.
— Arthur C. Clarke
What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Passion excites, earthly wisdom cools, but neither this heat nor this coolness, nor the blending of the heat and coolness is the pure air of the eternal. There is in this heat something ardent, and in this coolness something sharp, and in the blending of the two something indefinite, or an unconscious deceitfulness, as in the hazardous season of spring. But this 'thou shalt love' takes away all the unsoundness and preserves the soundness of eternity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
— George Washington
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
— Henry Ward Beecher
Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.
— Martin Luther
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
— Walt Whitman
Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
— John Henry Newman