habit is our idea of eternity.
Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.
A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
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
Love is the symbol of eternity.
OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.
If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith. . . Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.