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“in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.”

God Tears Eternal Duration

Book:Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]

Source: Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]

“Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.”

Knows Feelings Life Is Joy Suffering Three Enjoy Born Grief Sorrow Eternal Bliss Woe Three Times Joy Of Life Duration

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!”

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“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."”

Doe States Lying Consciousness Eternal Illusion Succession Duration States Of Consciousness

Book:The Secret Doctrine

Source: The Secret Doctrine

“"When we contemplate the duration of the universe, we see it limited to the present moment, which is nothing more but the point which separates two infinities of time. The past and the future are as meaningless as if they did not exist. Is anyone more misguided than the man who barters an eternal future for a moment which passes quicker than the blink of an eye?."”

Ifs Men Two Moments Eye Past Universe Positive He Man Eternal Present Moment Infinity Meaningless Contemplating Blink Duration Misguided Blink Of An Eye

Author:Ibn Hazm

“Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.”

Christian Time Asks Religious Eternal Finite Duration Transitory

Book:An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

Source: An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”

Ifs Life Mean Death Dying Events Eternal Experience Eternity Infinite Eternal Life Live In The Present Duration Timelessness Events In Life

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.”

Life Is Quality Limits Eternal Quality Of Life Eternal Life Duration

Book:The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of

Source: The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of

“The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature would seem quite inconceivable. This power of producing its likeness that resides in animals and plants, this form of unity, always subsisting and appearing eternal, this procreative virtue which is perpetually expressed without ever being destroyed, is for us a mystery which, it seems, we will never be able to fathom.”

Seems Able Form Science Individual Nature Natural Animal Virtue Mystery Eternal Plant Unity Species Destroyed Renewal Succession Appearing Duration Fathom

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.”