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England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

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Hermann HesseBäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

And those of us who trust ourselves the least,Who doubt and question most, these, it may be,Will mak...

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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when hea...

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…   not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, a...

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We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skul...

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Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun, And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they r...

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John ClarePoems Chiefly from Manuscript

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience t...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

-So you don't believe we have souls I guess?" and Legs laughed and said, "Yeah probably we do but wh...

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Joyce Carol OatesFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

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Jules VerneFive Weeks in a Balloon

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open ...

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There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and ther...

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Leo TolstoyWar and Peace

As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly exp...

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Louise ErdrichThe Master Butchers Singing Club

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is or...

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Louise ErdrichThe Master Butchers Singing Club

If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than w...

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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belo...

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A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky cloud...

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There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...

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Come with me into the woods where spring isadvancing, as it does, no matter what,not being singular ...

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The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be...

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If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus ...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, an...

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Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alte...

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I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no ...

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Pablo Neruda100 Love Sonnets

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is ...

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The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And...

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We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of i...

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In the small central square of Ljubljana, the statue of the poet stares fixedly at something. If you...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites i...

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I had a good time that night, too," Michael said, "but I kept thinking, This is forever. This is for...

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He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perish...

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It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, ...

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And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it ...

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Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

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We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spir...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...

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Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness t...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow. God views our live...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences t...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know w...

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Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do ...

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Good-bye and hello, as always.

Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat ...

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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addres...

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but ...

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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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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