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

There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.

Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

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

I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

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

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

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.

I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

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

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!

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

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.

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

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

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

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

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

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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

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

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here to Eternity.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

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