Eternal Quotes

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Life is always struggle with eternal forces.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life 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.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

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.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.