Quotes about Eternity

Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.

when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.

No man ever saw God and lived; and yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him I shall never die

But think that we Are but turn'd aside to sleep; They who one another keep Alive, ne'er parted be.

We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. (Elegie III: Change)

O Lord, as one made so by thee, to think me fit for thee; and whether it be thy pleasure to dispose of this body, this garment, so as to put it to a farther wearing in this world, or to lay it up in the common wardrobe, the grave, for the next, glorify thyself in thy choice now, and glorify it then, with that glory, which thy Son, our Saviour Christ Jesus, hath purchased for them whom thou makest partakers of his resurrection. Amen.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.