quotations and passages on eternity

Eternity is not something that
begins after you're dead. It is going
on all the time. We are in it now.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe
will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is
infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time,
and time is nothing in the infinite.

Shirdi Sai Baba

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are
those which a chick which has not broken its way
through its shell might form of the outside world.

the Buddha

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

Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth;
for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times
and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates
in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse
of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when
I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in
the heavens of freedom and liberation.
I have gone far, far away, O children of
my mother; the hills beyond the mists are
now hidden from my view, the last traces
of the valleys have been flooded by the
ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails
have been erased by the hand of oblivion.
The roar of ocean waves has faded. I
no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

William Wordsworth

The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light
upon the otherwise mysterious problem of people's origin.
It shows that human beings, as spirits, were begotten and born
of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions
of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in temporal bodies
to undergo an experience in mortality.

Heber J. Grant

Time is . . . Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love. . . Time is Eternity!

Henry van Dyke

During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off
in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone
you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little
specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

Harriet Doerr

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find
eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

See, if you can, eternity in the hour that passes.

Arabian proverb

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We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on
our lives and our days long and often before the face of God
and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as
certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible
moral beings we must deal with both.

A.W. Tozer

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and your are the mirror.

Khalil Gibran

I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which
I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as
a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.

John Fiske