Eternity quotes
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"Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity."
"And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts."
"I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity."
"The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience."
"Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere."
"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."
"As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life."
"You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine."
"If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been."
"Space is to place as eternity is to time."
"The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life."
"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."
"Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be."
"I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day."
"In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity."
"Lives in eternity's sun rise."
"Eternity was in our lips and eyes."
"This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity."
"Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile."
"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."
