“Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.” LightInspirationNightEternityWestEastComparison Book:Festus: a poem Source: Festus: a poem
“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!” WorldWantTwoDiesFallWalksExistenceRocksMassEternityDeeperForestsDustComparisonMortalityFleetingTombsMarbleDiggingWanting To DieCrumbling Author:Denis Diderot
“Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!” ThinkingLyingSpaceBrainBloodHavensPeriodsEternityRelationChaosTinyMathematicalComparisonAtomsInsignificantFarceLying Here Author:Ivan Turgenev
“We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.” MomentsSufferingTroubleOceanDrawsEternitySaintComparisonPresent MomentRemedy Author:Elizabeth Ann Seton
“All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects, he has form and semblance, He is not limited to form. He is more. He can attain to formlessness. When he is beyond form and semblance, beyond "this" and "that," where is the comparison with another object? Where is the conflict? What can stand in his way? He will rest in his eternal place which is no-place. He will be hidden in his own unfathomable secret. His nature sinks to its root in the One. His vitality, his power hide in secret Tao.” MenWayFormSoundSecretObjectsColorConflictEternalRootsEternityComparisonTaoVitalityUnfathomableSemblance Author:Zhuangzi
“The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.” CitiesVictoryEternityHolinessComparisonHeavenlyRomeFelicity Book:City of God Source: City of God
“My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.” ShouldMightEarthLife IsNextJesusRealizingMy OwnLordGenerationsEternityComparisonNext GenerationSowingOne Life To LiveBrief Life Author:George Muller
“What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.” ShouldChildrenFatherParentChristPiecesSonSkinsEternityStrangerManifestationComparisonUnspeakable Author:John Flavel
“The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.” ProblemFacesSpeakSimpleImpossibleEternityRealmsComparisonSphinx Author:P.D. Ouspensky