Eternity Quotes - Page 33

• Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Break Through, Timeless

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• Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Relative Value, Light

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• When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Morning, Night

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• Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Grieving, Eden

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “Memory and Hope”

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• I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

  Vanna Bonta

  Barbie Dolls, Amusement, Barbie

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

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• If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Love Life, Life Is Short

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• More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity.

  Catharine Arnold

  Together, Lovers, Cremation

  Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Soul, Spirit

  1799 'Influence of Natural Objects', l.1-4 (published in The Friend 28 Dec 1809).

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• What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Believe, Sea, Light

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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• Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Infinite, Certain, Connected

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• Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Believe, Heart

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.33

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• There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

  William Hazlitt

  Feelings, Youth, Young

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.1

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• Our dreams, like the disciples’, are always too small. We are here to fulfill God’s dream—that we will bring Him glory through a remarkably abundant life. That’s how we find our greatest personal fulfillment, now and for eternity.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Dream, Glory, Fulfillment

  Bruce Wilkinson (2006). “Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance”, Multnomah

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• Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

  Euripides

  Gone, May, Today

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Und dasTotsein ist mu«  hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu«  rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hard Work, Men, Feels

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• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hands, Endurance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.152

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• But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  War, Past, Men

  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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• Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Fate, Past, Echoes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.287

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• You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.

  John Selden

  Bible, Book, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 29), 1895.

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• Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome

  Hartley Coleridge

  Song, Light, Fog

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.290

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• Keep eternity before the children.

  Dallas Willard

  Children

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• I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen

  John Baillie

  Wise, Heart, Yield

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.

  Peter Drucker

  Meaningful, Life And Death, Tragedy

  "The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Time, Taken

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