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.
What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are – that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an 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.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, ‘From Beer to Eternity’ is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
If I take five seconds to think about something on TV, that five seconds is an eternity.
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that’s what I do.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.
What I question about the afterlife is how many people just accept it and don’t question it, because I think living for an eternity would be much worse than dying.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
In fast moving fields like cancer, where doctors tailor treatments based on evidence that’s constantly evolving, two years can be an eternity of waiting to learn about important science. For some patients, that interval can be fatal.
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
Today is a part of eternity.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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.
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.
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
