Pastoral Resources

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.