“For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?” IfsLifeDoeEndsHandsLastsTimeFallChangeSleepAbilityDestructionEternityOccasionsMidstDesirableExtinctionFatigueLast DayAbodeDeep Sleep Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.” FirstsStillsNightAbilityEternalBeatsWeaknessEternitySightRaisedBelovedRaysDreadSighBlazingAbility To See Author:Saint Augustine
“Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the background, and feel a great attraction for a daughter of God and therefore desire to enter marriage and have children and enjoy the blessings of eternity - that's a situation when marriage would be appropriate.” FeelsChildrenPersonsWould BeDesireEnjoyAbilityDealsSituationBlessingDaughterEternityAttractionBackgroundsAppropriateHomosexualInclinationTransgressionDaughter Of God Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.” MindHeartBodyJoyLyingBeliefAbilityObjectsSorrowOceanEternityChaosConfusionSunsetAcheMind And BodyMoonlightWeepingGlamourSorrowfulHope In God Author:T. H. White
“Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.” HeartSoulMomentsAbilityGreatnessEternityEdgesTeaRitualFragmentsSmall ThingsAbility To See Author:Muriel Barbery
“Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.” WorldEndsAbleLife IsUnderstandingHoursAbilityMinutesOne DayCapableEternityGoing AwayDistractionLife Is ShortHinder Book:The Orange Girl Source: The Orange Girl
“The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.” ThinkingWayMomentsSeemsAbilityEternityDisappearEveningAfternoonSlidesDaze Book:A Million Little Pieces Source: A Million Little Pieces
“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.” MenDoeBodyHandsLyingHoursDifferencesAbilityPerfectionWeightEternitySizeBlowConcentrationSublime Author:Elbert Hubbard