Eternity Quotations

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.

The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.

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

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have and cannot use is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to physical and spiritual destruction.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Nine minutes is not a long time, if you're going to take a nap. But it's an eternity if you're going to hide a shotgun.

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Time is just quantified eternity.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

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

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast

Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely different way, an awful lot that perhaps I'd never have the courage to lay bare, to open up. He just knows how to get you to do it, to bring out some inner quality

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

I get flooded with e-mails from people, and you get a sense of the desperation, ... People have been traumatized by the last 15 years of downsizing and the last few years of recession. Everyone's afraid they'll be next.

Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

We look at it this way. She is spending eternity with our heavenly father.

If I really thought about it, in a way it's depressing. To work thousands of hours for three-tenths of a second. But in track terms, it's an eternity ... all the hard work pays off. In Finland, (winning a silver medal at the 2004 World Outdoor Championships) made it all worthwhile.

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.

I was tormented. Fear and trembling. And a sense of doom. A literal belief in hell. Hell for eternity. With devils chasing you for eternity with pitchforks. I trembled. I couldn't go to sleep for fear I might die and wake up in hell. I was in agony." ()

It feels like an eternity since I've been out there. I can't wait to get out there and get on the field so the guys know I'm back, and hopefully I'm back to stay for a while.

I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they're universal themes.

Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?

We can't just focus on those two minutes in the Quonset hut. We had almost 26 years with a great son and we are going to have all eternity with him.

We do not believe that investors should be buying MSFT on a breakup valuation criteria; a breakup, if it were to make it through an appeal, would be executed three or more years from today, which is an eternity in the Internet-centric world. The legal overhang appears to be lengthening, unfortunately, for Microsoft.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life. It will not only bless and guide you during this life, but it will also have a direct bearing on your life throughout eternity.

Eternity ended ten years ago.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

My bits of time play with eternity.

In eternity everything is just beginning.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

We're excited about the opportunity that we have to play this weekend. It seems like we've been waiting an eternity to get started with this spring season.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

What if we still ride on, we two / With life forever old yet new, / Changed not in kind but in degree, / The instant made eternity - / And heaven just prove that I and she / Ride, ride together, for ever ride?

What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity

Architecture aims at Eternity

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.

It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that's where we're going to spend eternity.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.