Pastoral Resources

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.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.