In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it’s a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
I felt like the last thing we did, ‘The Eternal,’ and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we’d ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension… Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.
Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
I’m an eternal optimist.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won’t come to an end. Because it will.
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Our eternal capital Jerusalem was and remains our top national priority.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
Ecstasy and beauty are eternal.
Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
If you or the devil or anyone else could remove you from Christ’s hand, then that entity would be greater than Christ, and the eternal life He gave you would not be eternal at all. That’s an impossible equation.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
