#eternity

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternity #go #into #life #only

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ↗

— William Barclay

#determines #eternity #importance #life

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#catholic #certain #certain way #death #die

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity. ↗

— Walter Martin

#eternity #godhead #nature #persons #power

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#born #child #different #different world #elapsed

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#eternity #into #man #pass

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#creates #delivers #eternity #nature #never

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#eternity #joke #just #long #mere

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#exists #god #meets #only #only time

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospects of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul Richter

#eternity #age