Quotes About Eternity

Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in this world, not the longevity of organizations.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

When you are living by faith through the darkness of circumstances, other people become aware of the radiance and sweetness of your life, and they are truly blessed. When you refuse to admit your failure, God cannot be revealed through you to others, and they may be lost for eternity. Oh, the sin of unbelief has desperate consequences, not only for yourself, but for others!

In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous—sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?

way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Ps. 139:23–24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but

God's will is for all men to be delivered, to be rescued from death, to be saved, and to have an abundant, joyful life with Him for eternity.

forever—when

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

Nothing endures, except nothing itself.

The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up.

It was often difficult to tell if things were a hundred years old, or a hundred thousand.

Sometimes, at the heart of one of these stellar death-events, she observed a newly forged pulsar, emitting radio bursts with ever-slowing but stately precision, like the clocks in some forgotten imperial palace which had been wound one final time and would now tick until they died, the time between each tick lengthening towards some chill eternity.

Somewhere out beyond the Empty there now shone stars that had been born in gas clouds after this room was decorated. There were stars that had been alive then that were just corpses now, if they had left the least trace of themselves. There was just too much past, too much time that had already happened, and our lives were as nothing against that endless black conveyor belt, ceaselessly rolling, stretching and stretching ever further backward into a dread eternity.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.