Eternity quotes
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"It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature."
"Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity."
"Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar."
"God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready."
"But thy eternal summer shall not fade."
"He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public."
"There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal."
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
"Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity."
"Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing."
"Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity."
"Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child."
"Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes."
"The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision."
"Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)"
"Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!"
"Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you."
"Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty."
"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."
"The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying."
