Francois Fenelon Quotes

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.