Let others grumble that they see no fairies nor muses, I rejoice that my eyes see the erect eternal world…without blur or halo.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
—Henry David Thoreau
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
—Blaise Pascal
I do believe the best definition of man is that he is the eternally ungrateful biped.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
O may I press forward with renewed diligence and strive more earnestly to make a progress in the way that leadeth unto life eternal, Amen. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
What we do now echoes in eternity.
—Marcus Aurelius
O deeps unfathomed as the sea,
O heights that reach beyond the high,
O Love that lavished all on me,
I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.
O Love that is not here or there,
But like Thine own eternity
Is here, is there, is everywhere,
I yield, I love, I worship Thee.
—Amy Carmichael
The cross covers, the blood cleanses, and His eternal love will keep that which we have committed unto Him, until that day. Is not this a good word with which to end the year?
—Amy Carmichael
In spite of all opposition, from nature, from the world, from all the powers of darkness, still fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life!
—John Wesley
It is a petty view of our Father’s love and wisdom which demands or expects an answer according to our desires, apart from His wisdom. We see hardly one inch of the narrow lane of time. To our God eternity lies open as a meadow.
—Amy Carmichael
How wonderful that a private man should have such an influence on the temporal and eternal happiness of millions; literally, millions on millions yet unborn! O God, make me more earnest for Thy glory; and may I act more from real love and gratitude to my redeeming Lord.
—William Wilberforce
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
—Cicero
Time cannot exist in and by itself. God by his eternal power sustains time, both in its entirety and in each separate moment of it.
—Herman Bavinck
Prevenient grace may be simple conviction or a strange longing which nothing can satisfy or powerful aspiration after eternal values or feeling of disgust for sin & desire to be delivered from its repulsive coils. These strange workings within are the stirrings of the Holy Spirit
—A. W. Tozer
God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity. In every second throbs the heartbeat of eternity.
—Herman Bavinck
God remains eternal and inhabits eternity, but uses time with a view to manifesting his eternal thoughts and perfections. He makes time subservient to eternity and thus proves himself to be the King of the ages (1 Tim. 1:17).
—Herman Bavinck
God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity; he maintains a definite relation to time, entering into it with his eternity. Between eternity and time there is a distinction not only in quantity and degree but also in quality and essence.
—Herman Bavinck
From eternity to eternity he is who he is. There is in him no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17). God is not a process of becoming but an eternal being. He is without beginning and end, but also knows no earlier and later.
—Herman Bavinck
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
But let me tell you, my brother, eternity is another thing than we ordinarily take it to be in a healthful state. Oh, how vast and boundless! Oh, how fixed and unalterable! Oh, of what infinite importance is it, that we be prepared for eternity!
—David Brainerd
Is not eternal life worth the suffering of a moment’s pain? If I suffer with Him, I shall reign with Him (2 Tim. 2:12).
—John Flavel
My sin may be as high as the highest mountain, but the sacrifice that covers it is as high as the highest heaven; my guilt may be as deep as the ocean, but the atonement that swallows it up is as deep as eternity.
—R. A. Torrey
The church stands by God’s election, and cannot waver or fail any more than his eternal providence can ~ Calvin
There are some of us who set much store by our morality, our culture, and our refinement; but if we knew how little we weighed in the balances of the eternal and all holy God, we would fall on our knees and cry, “God be merciful to me, a sinner!”
—R. A. Torrey
Shame on us Christian people for thinking so much like worldlings and using the foolish methods of philosophy when we are dealing with the everlasting and eternal God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense.
But why must it be?
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. – C.S. Lewis
A little of true peace, a little of the joys of the manifested love of Christ, and a little of the true and holy hope of eternal life, are enough to compensate for all that toil and weariness, and to erase the remembrance of it from the mind.
—Jonathan Edwards