Eternity Quotes - Page 23

• Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Adversity, Voice, Affliction

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• Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Drunk, Joy

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• The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

  Robert Southey

  World, Weight, Headstone

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• The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Purpose, Gains, Merit

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• A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.532, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.

  LeAnn Rimes

  I Love You, Forever With You, Forever Love

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• Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Want, Way

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books

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• To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Light, Resentment

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Real, Differences, Evil

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• It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don't last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.

  Michael Huffington

  Christian, Forever, Soul

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Pain, Sleep, Son

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• Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

  Ellis Peters

  Brother, Soul, Elbows

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Fate, Solitude

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Soul, Taste, Clarity

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.145, The Overlook Press

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• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, People, Heaven

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• A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Destiny, Men, Life And Death

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• [Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Death, Dark, Light

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• They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Flower, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• What I value most next to eternity is time.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Inspirational, Next, Values

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• It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Inspirational, Differences, Making A Difference

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Wise, Clever

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 617), 1895.

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• My life and my whole eternity belongs to God.  All this stuff is temporary.  Money, fame, successtemporary.  Even life is temporary.  Jesusthat's eternal.

  Willie Robertson

  Stuff, Life Is, Fame

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• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  Manny Farber

  Beach, Directors, Lancaster

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• Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

  Heraclitus

  Children, Kingdoms, Checkers

  "Refutation of all heresies, Book IX (Fragment 52)". Book by Hippolytus of Rome (3rd century AD), as later translated in Carl Avren Levenson and Jonathan Westphal "Reality" (p. 10), 1994.

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