Eternal Quotes

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.