Quotes about Eternity
She saw the years to come stretch before her like an autumn afternoon, filled with resigned memory. Life to her could never more have any eagerness; it was a solemn service of gratitude and patient effort. She walked in the presence of unseen witnesses—of the Divine love that had rescued her, of the human love that waited for its eternal repose until it had seen her endure to the end.
— George Eliot
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.
— Ravi Zacharias
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
— Gordon Hinckley
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
— St. Augustine
The most glorious city of God.
— St. Augustine
God has loved us as if there is only one of us
— St. Augustine
Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new
— St. Augustine
Man is God truly alive
— St. Augustine
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
— Saint Jerome
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
— St. John Chrysostom
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas