ETERNITY QUOTES IV

quotations about eternity


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Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee? or dost Thou see in time, what passeth in time? Why then do I lay in order before Thee so many relations? Not, of a truth, that Thou mightest learn them through me, but to stir up mine own and my readers' devotions towards Thee, that we may all say, Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. I have said already; and again will say, for love of Thy love do I this. For we pray also, and yet Truth hath said, Your Father knoweth what you have need of, before you ask. It is then our affections which we lay open unto Thee, confessing our own miseries, and Thy mercies upon us, that Thou mayest free us wholly, since Thou hast begun, that we may cease to be wretched in ourselves, and be blessed in Thee; seeing Thou hast called us, to become poor in spirit, and meek, and mourners, and hungering and athirst after righteousness, and merciful, and pure in heart, and peace-makers. See, I have told Thee many things, as I could and as I would, because Thou first wouldest that I should confess unto Thee, my Lord God. For Thou art good, for Thy mercy endureth for ever.

ST. AUGUSTINE
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Confessions


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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

THOMAS AQUINAS

attributed, Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom


Yes, from the mountain of eternity we shall look down, and behold the whole plain spread before us. Down here we get lost and confused in the devious valleys that run off from the rdots of the hills everywhere, and we cannot make out where the streams are going, and what there is behind that low shoulder of the hill yonder. But when we get to the summit peak and look down, it will all shape itself into one consistent whole, and we shall see it all at once.

THOMAS BOSTON

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


This world which stretches out before you, is but the vestibule of an immortal life. These deeds that are taking place around you, touch upon chords that extend by a thousand connections, visible and invisible, and vibrate in eternity.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Duties of Young Men


The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last.

PETRARCH

Triumph of Eternity


The vanity which adheres to the world in every form, when its pleasures and occupations are regarded as ultimate objects, is at once corrected when they are viewed in connexion with a boundless futurity; and whatever may be their intrinsic value, they rise into dignity and importance when considered as the seed of a future harvest, as the path which, however obscure, leads to honour and immortality.

ROBERT HALL

funeral sermon for the Princess Charlotte of Wales


It is a long road that leads to eternity, and the inns for travelers are few.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel


Now imagine a mountain of that sand, a million miles high, reaching from the earth to the farthest heavens, and a million miles broad, extending to remotest space, and a million miles in thickness; and imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplied as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean, feathers on birds, scales on fish, hairs on animals, atoms in the vast expanse of air: and imagine that at the end of every million years a little bird came to that mountain and carried away in its beak a tiny grain of that sand. How many millions upon millions of centuries would pass before that bird had carried away even a square foot of that mountain, how many eons upon eons of ages before it had carried away all? Yet at the end of that immense stretch of time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended. At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun. And if that mountain rose again after it had been all carried away, and if the bird came again and carried it all away again grain by grain, and if it so rose and sank as many times as their are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves upon the trees, feathers upon birds, scales upon fish, hairs upon animals, at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time the mere thought of which makes our very brain real dizzily, eternity would scarcely have begun.

JAMES JOYCE

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

RICHARD JEFFERIES

The Story of My Heart


Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE LAMARTINE

Last Night and Execution of the Girondists


He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon: Or


We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

PAULO COELHO

The Alchemist


Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Adonais


Many habitually think and act as if there is no eternity.... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

RANDY ALCORN

Money


This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!

THOMAS MOORE

Lalla Rookh


There's never a beginning for eternity.

TOBA BETA

Master of Stupidity


Forever is a long time, but not as long as it was yesterday.

DENNIS H'ORGNIES

attributed, Quotable Quotes


The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE

attributed, Thoughts for Meaningful Life


In the sight of eternity
I realize my present state
A leaf in the storm of time
Drifting to the final gate

GOLDEN DAWN

"Sub Specie Aeternitatis", The Art of Dreaming


I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

"A History of Eternity"