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When you can live forever what do you live for?

Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. -- Bella Cullen

My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my deat...

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Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

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Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in...

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Søren KierkegaardThe Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The on...

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Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.

If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo great...

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We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we starte...

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In all my lives, the only thing I've seen save people from themselves is hope. Hope beyond logic. Ho...

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Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death’s eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked a...

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may em...

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With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its o...

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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from th...

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Thomas MooreThe Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of t...

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You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear...

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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or deat...

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Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few se...

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A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinit...

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

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Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who ...

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The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church...

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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel...

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The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars whi...

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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword...

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What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and ...

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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immed...

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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest?'Tis that every mother's sonTravail...

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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past...

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was hu...

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I have just got a new theory of eternity.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important...

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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lof...

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Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that th...

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I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance h...

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Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

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Anthony BurgessLittle Wilson and Big God: The First Part of the Confession

Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eterni...

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While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth Ma...

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perhaps the answer is simply one:one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet,a small jazz co...

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Billy CollinsSailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–2...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Where will we spend eternity—with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly hom...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost—while thinking they are sav...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–2...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Where will we spend eternity—with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart ...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly hom...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost—while thinking they are sav...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–2...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Where will we spend eternity—with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart ...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly hom...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost—while thinking they are sav...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–2...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Where will we spend eternity—with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart ...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly hom...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost—while thinking they are sav...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–2...

Show More

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of...

Show More

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Where will we spend eternity—with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart ...

Show More

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.