Eternity Quotes - Page 26

• Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Two, Looks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

  Annie Dillard

  Mind, World, Want

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Morning, Pain

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• What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Genius, Definitions, Judgment

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 92, 1799.

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• There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Men, Europe

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

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• Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

  Mason Cooley

  Elude Us, Literature, Elude

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• Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Brain, Spirit

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Choices, Rejection

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• That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

  Karen Horney

  Love, Loneliness, Bridges

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency." It's really ridiculous.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.

  Norman Foster

  Numbers, Should, Objects

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• When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, Giving, Earth

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• Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Goal, Hoarding

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• Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

  Pope Leo I

  Mother, Peace, Children

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Running, Rest In Peace, Believe

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• Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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• Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity.

  Avril Lavigne

  Friendship, Sea, Two

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• Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.

  Dervla Murphy

  Heaven, Library, Unions

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• Dear God, I understand that if I fail to believe in you, I'll burn in hell for eternity. Thanks for being such a good sport about it.

  Scott Dikkers

  Sports, Believe, Thanks

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• The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

  Bob Brown

  Pursuit, Here And Now, Prerogative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

  Agnes Smedley

  Love You, Living Right, Awful

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• I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.

  Peter Berg

  Winning, Men, Musician

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

  Ani DiFranco

  Relationship, Want, Today

  Song: Light Of Some Kind, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Past, Greatness

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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