Eternity Quotes - Page 30

• Time is the Mercy of Eternity

  William Blake

  Mercy

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.295, Penguin

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• To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Choices, Important

  Samuel Johnson (1830). “Rasselas: A tale”, p.159

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• Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Confluence

  "The French Revolution, A History" by Thomas Carlyle, part I, book VI, chapter V., 1837.

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• So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Night, Blue

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.356

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• Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Silence, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.353

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• Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

  John Milton

  Light, Essence, Heaven

  John Milton, Sarah Siddons (1822). “The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons”, p.43

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• Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

  Blaise Pascal

  Good Life, Believe, Heaven

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• Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

  Philip James Bailey

  Inspiration, Night, Light

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.208

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• If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Live In The Present, Unending, All Time

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• That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Journey, Sight, Bridges

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• The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

  John Ford

  Princess, Earth Life, Joy

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 2, sc. 2

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• One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.

  Wumen Huikai

  Instant

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• When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Thinking, Law

  "On the Horrors of the Slave Trade". Speech delivered in the House of Commons, May 12, 1789.

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• Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.

  Sylvia Browne

  Animal, Pet, Sides

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• Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.

  Robert Stuart MacArthur

  Foundation, Christ, Sand

  Robert Stuart MacArthur (1890). “The Calvary Pulpit: Christ and Him Crucified”

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• The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.

  Moses Hess

  Doe, Spirit, After Death

  Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press

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• Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Heart, Blue

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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 ith death. We are in eternity now.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Death, Believe, Two Sides

  Norman Vincent Peale (1987). “The power of positive thinking”, Prentice Hall

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• The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.

  Harold B. Lee

  Dream, Prayer, Grateful

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• You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Time, Pain, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.319, Harvard University Press

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• How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.

  Harold B. Lee

  Happiness, Angel, Joy

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• In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.

  Robert E. Howard

  Struggle, Men, Clouds

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “CONAN THE BARBARIAN SERIES – Complete Collection (Fantasy & Action-Adventure Classics): Pre-historic world of dark magic and savagery - 20 books about the Cimmerian Barbarian, Thief, Pirate and Eventual King of Aquilonia During the pre-Ice Age, Hyborian Age, Featuring a Poem and an Essay”, p.192, e-artnow

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone

  Rees Howells

  Crowds, May, Faces

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• Not if Their Party were waiting,
  Not if to talk with Me
  Were to Them now, Homesickness
  After Eternity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Party, Waiting, Homesickness

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.662, Harvard University Press

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