Quotes about Eternity
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
— Helen Keller
I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.
— William Temple
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
— John Henry Newman
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
— AA Milne
Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath … one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in the world to come.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Time...which is eternity in disguise.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is holiness in time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel