Eternal Time Quotes

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

Time is just quantified eternity.

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

It's always tea-time.

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.