Eternity Quotes - Page 12

• The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

  Henry Adams

  Crush, Attitude, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.283, Booklassic

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• If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Men, Space

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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• When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

  Bill T. Jones

  Pain, Needs, Knows

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• You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself.  Life is not static.  It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware.  There is something within you that sings the song of eternity.  Listen to it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Song, Forever, Pathways

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• Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fun, Nice, Believe

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.62, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sssh says the ocean
  Sssh says the small wave at the shore
  sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable.
  Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore.
  Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity

  Catherine Marshall

  Christian, Father, Revelations

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• Love is the symbol of eternity.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Love Is, Symbols

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• A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.

  Ann Hasseltine Judson

  Christian, Littles, Christian Inspirational

  afterwards WILLSON STUART (Arabella M.), afterwards JUDSON CHUBBUCK (Emily E.), Ann Hasseltine JUDSON, Sarah Boardman JUDSON (1856). “The Lives of Mrs. A. H. Judson, Mrs. S. B. Judson, and Mrs. E. C. Judson, Missionaries to Burmah, Etc. Twenty-second Thousand”, p.117

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• A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2011). “Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study”, p.91, David C Cook

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• Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Disappointment, Taken

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• Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Age, Done

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.341

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• Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Focus, Should

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• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  Laozi

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Time, Single Mom, Moments

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

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• You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

  William Rose Benet

  Friendship, Self, Truest

  William Rose Benét (1927). “Man Possessed: Being the Selected Poems of William Rose Benét”

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• -no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dream, Spiritual

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.36, Grove Press

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Marriage, Sex

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.

  Colleen Houck

  Love You, Home, Heart

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• Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

  Herodotus

  Time, History, Historian

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• Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.

  Stanley Coren

  Friendship, Dog, Animal

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• Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Broken, Shells

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• Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

  Gary DeMar

  Dark, Practice, Doors

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• There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

  J.B. Miller

  Leadership, Hurt, Mysterious Things

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• Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Moving, Love Is

  'Love What It Is'

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