Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?

We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Not to be limited by the greatest and yet to be contained in the tiniest—this is the divine

My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.