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Quotes About Eternal

Scripture is also called gospel, that is, new and joyful news, because in it is declared that Christ, the sole true and eternal Son of the living God, was made man, to make us children of God his Father, by adoption. Thus
~ John Calvin
All other comforts are temporary and illusory unless we depend wholly upon Christ. Therefore
~ John Calvin
The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal. Therefore
~ John Calvin
The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way. But
~ John Calvin
And it was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true and only eternal Son of God, who had to be sent and given to mankind by the Father, to restore a world otherwise wasted, destroyed, and desolate.
~ John Calvin
But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for men's eternal redemption and he alone officiated in that priestly act. He
~ John Calvin
Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.
~ John Calvin
God was pleased to indicate and typify both the gift of future and eternal felicity by terrestrial blessings, as well as the dreadful nature of spiritual death by bodily punishments, at that time when he delivered his covenant to the Israelites as under a kind of veil.
~ John Calvin
But be it so that public error must have a place in human society, still, in the kingdom of God, we must look and listen only to his eternal truth, against which no series of years, no custom, no conspiracy, can plead prescription.
~ John Calvin
Anyone, therefore, who obscures the glory of God, puts himself in the position of striving to subvert the eternal purpose of God. .
~ John Calvin
After all, what is hell but the eternal absence of God? To exist in a hellish state is to be denied forever the promise of hope, of redemption, of love. To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography.
~ John Connolly
As in all of these disciplines, there's one key ingredient that helps keep the religion out – fun. Religion, by nature, demands your serious attention. It is the anti-play. Capon writes: For while it is a truism that nothing that is fun can be done without some measure of discipline, it is practically an eternal truth that nothing that calls for discipline will be kept at very long (or very well) if it is not fun.44
~ John Crowder
They wanted eternal life; he gave them perpetual motion. It comes to the same thing, for such a race.
~ John Crowley
He went out, already unaccountably weary though the journey had not even begun, into the multicolored arctic waste beneath a decillion stars, whose near brilliance seemed to chime, even as the harness of his reindeer chimed when they raised their shaggy heads at his approach, and as the eternal snow chimed too when he trod it with his booted feet. Room
~ John Crowley
source of his thaumaturgical powers. A gracious host as well, he cherishes his Guests and makes them eternally welcome.
~ John DeChancie
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
~ John Donne
Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night.
~ John Donne
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late school-boys and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices ; Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
~ John Donne
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...
~ John Donne
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
Since heaven's eternal year is thine.
~ John Dryden
Perhaps the best-known verse in the Bible is John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
~ John Dunlop
Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
~ Ivan Turgenev