Eternity

(284 votes)   The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

Jalal-Uddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet

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(269 votes)   In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(192 votes)   All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(168 votes)   Forever is a long bargain.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(138 votes)   Eternity -- waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney
1876-1972, American-born French Author

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(125 votes)   One never ends. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(115 votes)   Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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