Quotes about Eternity
For the followers of Jesus, the real finish line is either the return of Jesus or our homecoming to him.
— John Eldredge
As Athanasius said, "He became what we are that we might become what he is."
— John Eldredge
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet [shofar]. For the trumpet [shofar] will sound, and the dead will be raised. (1 CORINTHIANS 15:51—52)
— John Hagee
I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
— John Keats
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...
— John Keats
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
— John Keats
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon to death.
— John Keats
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
— Aldous Huxley
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
— Henry David Thoreau
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford