Quotes about Eternity
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
— Wendell Berry
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
— William Wordsworth
The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
— Julian of Norwich
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
— Karl Barth
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
— Karl Barth
God's time never stops.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
— Cicero
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.
— Maya Angelou
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
— Mark Twain
In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely? Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, There is no other.
— Mark Twain
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
— Mark Twain