Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Today is a part of eternity.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

Forever is composed of nows.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.