Quotes About Eternity

Only one life, it will soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Remember to take time for God—it is life's only lasting investment.

Spiritual growth results from self-denial. At times we must give up something good in order to do what God wants. Each person's special duties determine the discipline and denial that he or she must accept. Without a goal, discipline is nothing but self-punishment. With the goal of pleasing God, our denial seems like nothing compared to the eternal, imperishable reward that will be ours.

God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pictures of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone?

Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Divine Time, Geological Time, Human Time, Moss Time.

Love like that is a deep well, with steep sides. Once you fall in, that's it - you will love that person always.

believe that we are surrounded by a host of unseen friends and loved ones, now passed away, who exert an influence upon our lives, and who never abandon us.

You'll be haunting my tomorrows evermore.

Sometimes I imagine a whole future made out of the moment after I've died and you are still sitting beside me.' 'You imagine I'll be there at your deathbed?' 'Yes.' 'And if I stayed away, would you live for ever?

I had to give myself up to you for your lifetime. What is faith when you feel you've lost something forever? I had to have you--someone I could lose forever.

Do flies trapped in amber scream?

The world wasn't going to go away. Ever.

I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is a long, long story. You move on from it, , but the death will never disappear from view.

and the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.

Steinbeck wasn't the thirties and Dickens wasn't the eighteen-hundreds. They were of their times but for the ages. Their writings are not products marketed for a brief time until they're out of vogue and discarded on the scrap heap.

Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.

The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.

you will tell me roundly that God's reach is longer than man's." "It had better be," said Brother Cadfael very solemnly, "otherwise we are all lost." Turn the page to continue reading from the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael