Quotes About Eternity

Jet Magazine May 3, 1982: Dick "Richie" Allen, who is serving as a Texas Rangers batting instructor, revealing why his sights are set higher than the Hall Of Fame: "The Hall Of Fame? I ain't interested in the Hall Of Fame. Heaven, that's what I'm aiming for. You don't need any votes to get into heaven.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

Why are we so afraid when we think about death? Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if only we can be still and hold fast to God's Word. Death is not bitter, if we have not become bitter ourselves. Death is grace, the greatest gift of grace that God gives to people who believe in Him.

No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence.

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity.

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.

Radicalism hates time. Compromise hates eternity. Radicalism hates patience. Compromise hates decision. Radicalism hates wisdom. Compromise hates simplicity. Radicalism hates measure. Compromise hates the immeasurable.

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

And so the unseen Lord of the eternal kingdom and of the church sends out ambassadors into this world, giving them a mission that is greater than that of any other, just as heaven is greater than earth, and eternity is greater than time. And the authority that this Lord gives these ambassadors is that much greater than all the authorities in this world.

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.

One doesn't cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute eternity to earthly things. One leaves to death the limited right that it still has. But one expects the new human being and the new world only frombeyond death, from the power that has conquered death.

It is the wonderful theme of the Bible, so frightening for many people, that the only visible sign of God in the world is the cross.

Wir gehören einander allein durch und in Jesus Christus. Was heißt das? Es heißt erstens, dass ein Christ den andern braucht um Jesu Christi willen. Es heißt zweitens, dass ein Christ zum andern nur durch Jesus Christus kommt. Es heißt drittens, dass wir in Jesus Christus von Ewigkeit her erwählt, in der Zeit angenommen und für die Ewigkeit vereinigt sind.

God's] love for us was displayed most clearly through the cross of Christ. There our Lord stretched out His bloodstained hands to say, "I love you this much!

Do not view the Lord as your temporary solution; see Him as your eternal Savior.

How you live today has the potential to impact all eternity.

Our love will never faultier like the sun will never fees, my soul will never leave yours like eternity will never end.

You will never disappear," I said. "Even if it may feel like you have at some point. We're going to remain a part of each other's lives for much longer than we think. There's nothing we can say or do to change that.

Mais Drogo ignorait ce qu'était le temps.

Quanto tempo davanti! Lunghissimo gli pareva anche un solo anno e gli anni buoni erano appena cominciati; sembravano formare una serie lunghissima, di cui era impossibile scorgere il fondo, un tesoro ancora intatto e così grande da potersi annoiare. Nessuno c'era che gli dicesse: "Attento, Giovanni Drogo!". La vita gli appariva inesauribile, ostinata illusione, benché la giovinezza fosse già cominciata a sfiorire. Ma Drogo non conosceva il tempo.

Qual ponte, muti chiedemmo, qual ponte abbiamo noi gettato sull'infinito, che tutto ci appare ombra di eternità ?

The intelligent man should see to it that his friends are immortal, his enemies mortal.