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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.
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?
Tom Stoppard (b.1937) British playwright.
What is eternity? Was asked of a deaf and dumb pupil, and the beautiful and striking answer was, “ it is the lifetime of the Almighty”.
Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name. It supposes, in that to which it is applied, a present existence, and is the negation of a beginning or an end of that existence.
Paley.
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
Farrar.
This is the world of seeds, of causes, and of tendencies; the other is the world of harvests and results and of perfected and eternal consequences.
Eternity, thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being! Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; but shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Addison.
He that will open put eternity and the world before him, and will dare to look steadfastly at both f them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.
Colton.
The wish falls upon, warm upon my heart, that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue un the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.
Richter.
The most momentous concern of man is the state he shall enter upon after this sort and transitory life is ended; and in proportion as eternity is of greater importance than time, so ought men to be solicitous upon what grounds their expectations wit regard to that durable state are built, and on what assurances their hopes or their fears stand.
Clarke.
How vast is eternity! It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
Emmons.
Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.
F.W. Robertson.
Eternity invests every state, whether of bliss or suffering, with a mysterious and awful importance entirely its own. It gives weight and moment to whatever it attaches, compared to which all interests that know a period fade into absolute insignificance.
Robert Hall.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is, that we believe what the Bible tells us, and do what the Bible bide us.
Chalmers.
There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence, and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
cicero
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grows meaner and more hostile.
Carlyle.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
Emerson.
The grand difficulty is so to feel the reality of both worlds as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings to keep our mind’s eye, and our heart’s eye, ever fixed on the land of Promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.
Hare.
The eternal world is not merely a world beyond time and grave. It embraces time; it is ready to realize itself under all the forms of temporal things. Its light and power are latent everywhere, waiting for human souls to welcome it, ready to break through the transparent veil of earthly things and to suffuse with its ineffable radiance the common life of man.
John Caird.
The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.
Malesherbes.
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?
Tom Stoppard (b.1937) British playwright.
What is eternity? Was asked of a deaf and dumb pupil, and the beautiful and striking answer was, “ it is the lifetime of the Almighty”.
Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name. It supposes, in that to which it is applied, a present existence, and is the negation of a beginning or an end of that existence.
Paley.
No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
Farrar.
This is the world of seeds, of causes, and of tendencies; the other is the world of harvests and results and of perfected and eternal consequences.
Eternity, thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being! Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; but shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Addison.
He that will open put eternity and the world before him, and will dare to look steadfastly at both f them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.
Colton.
The wish falls upon, warm upon my heart, that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue un the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.
Richter.
The most momentous concern of man is the state he shall enter upon after this sort and transitory life is ended; and in proportion as eternity is of greater importance than time, so ought men to be solicitous upon what grounds their expectations wit regard to that durable state are built, and on what assurances their hopes or their fears stand.
Clarke.
How vast is eternity! It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
Emmons.
Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.
F.W. Robertson.
Eternity invests every state, whether of bliss or suffering, with a mysterious and awful importance entirely its own. It gives weight and moment to whatever it attaches, compared to which all interests that know a period fade into absolute insignificance.
Robert Hall.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is, that we believe what the Bible tells us, and do what the Bible bide us.
Chalmers.
There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence, and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
cicero
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grows meaner and more hostile.
Carlyle.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
Emerson.
The grand difficulty is so to feel the reality of both worlds as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings to keep our mind’s eye, and our heart’s eye, ever fixed on the land of Promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.
Hare.
The eternal world is not merely a world beyond time and grave. It embraces time; it is ready to realize itself under all the forms of temporal things. Its light and power are latent everywhere, waiting for human souls to welcome it, ready to break through the transparent veil of earthly things and to suffuse with its ineffable radiance the common life of man.
John Caird.
The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.
Malesherbes.
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