Eternity Quotes - Page 21

• ...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

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• Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Men, Flames, Waiting

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• God is good. He is eager to forgive. He wants us to perfect ourselves and maintain control of ourselves. He does not want Satan and others to control our lives. We must learn that keeping our Heavenly Father's commandments represents the only path to total control of ourselves, the only way to find joy, truth, and fulfillment in this life and in eternity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Perfect, Joy

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• What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Destiny, Thinking

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• This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Men, Light

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Long, Decision

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.159, SCM Press

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Fabric, Sometimes

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• Brothers and sisters, with the blessings of modern technology, we can express gratitude and joy about God’s great plan for His children in a way that can be heard not only around our workplace but around the world. Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone’s life for eternity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Brother, Children

  FaceBook post by Dieter F Uchtdorf from Aug 17, 2014

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• What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.

  Meister Eckhart

  Lying, Creating, Long

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• All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

  George Whitefield

  Struggle, Looks, Sides

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• Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

  Og Mandino

  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.

  Rene Daumal

  Men, Sky, Mountain

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• Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Looks, Body

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace... We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Differences, Hours

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• If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Confusion, Sorrow

  William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”

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• The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  World

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• Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.

  Stuart Townsend

  Teacher, Dark, Years

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• Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life and he can be sure that in eternity he will have as his lot the service and the companionship which he preferred in this life. This is what the Lord means when He says, 'If anyone is my servant let him follow Me and where I am he will be there as my servant' (Jn. 12:26).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Mean, Companionship

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.48, Paulist Press

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• One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of all time and eternity. Yet He is before time and beyond time and is the source of the variety of time and of the seasons. Or again, He precedes the eternal ages, for He is there before eternity and above eternity, and 'His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom' (Ps. 145:13). Amen.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Age, Kingdoms

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• Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fatherhood, Easy, Assignments

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• All eternity is in the moment.

  Mary Oliver

  Moments

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Blue Iris: Poems and Essays”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

  Oswald Chambers

  Events, Answers, Problem

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.212, Discovery House

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• Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

  Meher Baba

  Mirrors, Expression, Mind

  "Meher Baba on God-realization: The Practical Side of Self-realization".

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