Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.