Quotes about Permanence

Lord, in the beginning you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. Even they will perish, but you remain forever. They will wear out like old clothing. You will roll them up like an old coat. They will fade away like old clothing. But you are always the same; you will never grow old. (Hebrews 1:10—12 NLT)

the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

For first must give place to last, because last must have its time to come; but last gives place to nothing; for there is not another to succeed.

It is the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the sky the clouds. I look up, through the trees, into the sky. The clouds lose tufts of whiteness as the breeze dishevels them. If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever; if this moment could stay for ever.

All these things happen in one second and last forever.

it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and

Time had not altered the beauty of his countenance, nor darkened the brightness of his eyes. He continued on the same, preserved in an incorruptible beauty in the corruptibleness of nature.

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.