Quotes About Eternity

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

It's He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven't the slightest idea about now. He's told us enough so that we know suffering is never for nothing.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

I reminded Jim of what we both knew it might mean if he went. "Well, if that's the way God wants it to be," was his calm reply. "I'm ready to die for the salvation of the Aucas." While still a student in college Jim had written: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

If in fact I do believe these great things we say and sing together, then those little things (and what is not little by comparison?)

It was he who told her of the three inscriptions over the doors of the Milan Cathedral. One, with a carving of roses, says, "All that pleases is but for a moment"; another, with a carving of a cross, says, "All that grieves is but for a moment"; and over the great central door are only the words, "Nothing is important but that which is eternal.

The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, Do you also want to leave me? If we answer as PEter did, Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life, our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.

Nu este nechibzuit cel ce renunta la ceea ce nu poate pastra pentru a castiga ceea ce nu poate pierde.

Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum.

La muerte no es algo que haya que temer. De hecho, puede ser la experiencia más increíble de la vida. Sólo depende de cómo se vive la vida en el presente. Y lo único que importa es el amor.»

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

I'll love you forever in darkness and sun, I'll love you past when my whole sweet life is done.

I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record playing in the background.

I understood, that he was right in asking to be cremated. For if he was nowhere, he could be everywhere. As in, with me.

I'll love you forever in darkness and sun, I'll love you past when my whole sweet life is done

love you forever in darkness and sun, I'll love you past when my whole sweet life is done," he says. Something he

I step across any reflections that are too dark with great strides, and when I am in my right mind, I find life acceptable because it is eternal. You call that my dreaming. I call it my faith and my strength. No, nothing dies, nothing is lost, nothing ends, whatever you may say. —George Sand, in a letter to Delacroix

I will come back as a little breeze," she says. "You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I'm still listening. So you can still talk to me.

I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record playing in the background.

Die and you'll be popular.

If God answers my requests my heaven will be spent on earth up until the end of the world. Yes, I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth. . . . After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses.