ETERNITY

Related Subjects: Death, Hell, Judgment Day, Mortality, Paradise, Salvation, Soul, Time

1. 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
   

2. The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.—Bible, 2 Corinthians 4:18
   

3. Yesterday, and today, and forever.—Bible, Hebrews 13:8
   

4. What we call eternity may be but an endless series of the transitions which men call deaths, abandonments of home, going ever to fairer scenes and loftier heights. Age after age, the spirit—that glorious nomad —may shift its tent, carrying with it evermore its elements, activity and desire.—BULWER-LYTTON
   

5. Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grows meaner and more hostile.—CARLYLE
   

6. He that will of ten put eternity and the world before him, and will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.—C. C. COLTON
   

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

8. For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!—KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn
   

9. The horologe of Eternity
   Sayeth this incessantly,—
   "Forever—never!
   Never—forever!"—LONGFELLOW, Clock on the Stairs
   

10. Eternity is the ocean; time is the wave.—MAETERLINCK, Before the Great Silence
    

11. Eternity has no gray hairs.—Proverb
    

12. For ever and a day.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

13. I saw Eternity the other night
    Like a great ring of pure and endless light.—HENRY VAUGHAN, The World