Quotes about Eternity
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.
— Brigham Young
The goal of the spiritual life is to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can possibly be, in this life and throughout all eternity.
— Brother Lawrence
Death is not the end for a servant of God, but just the start of indescribable everlasting life in the presence of Jesus.
— Brother Yun
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Now
— Herman Melville
Hope proves a man deathless.
— Herman Melville
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
— Herman Melville
if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
— Herman Melville
Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality
— Herman Melville
Immortality is but ubiquity in time.
— Herman Melville
Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly life,— in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them. Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.
— Herman Melville
The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.
— Hilaire Belloc
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
— Ellen White