Quotes about Eternity

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?

Here there is nothing but love and beauty. Ugh! it is like sitting for all eternity at the first act of a fashionable play, before the complications begin.

Love once, love always

In their death they were not divided.

But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.