Quotes about Eternity

“Eternity -- waste of time.”

“Forever is a long bargain.”

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”

“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”

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

“To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.”

“The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.”

“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.”