Pastoral Resources

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.