#eternity

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#capable #dignity #eternity #glimpse #important

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity. ↗

— Bill Hybels

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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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