Quotes About Eternity

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that our civilization has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden scepters. Beyond the door are the dark wastes where Leviathans wrestled for millennia. We are a blink of an eye, a joke amidst a tragedy.

And the bones fell to the ground, and other bones fell on top of them, and yet more bones, until there were whole hills and cliffs made of them. Death upon death upon death upon death. And two-legged animals dug up old bones and wondered at them. And then they died as well and lay there, like a rat in the sawdust, waiting to become old bones.

the murderess of time.

Nightly, certain stars seem to bring me into closer and more constant touch with the mysterious laws of the universe. These stars, too, are the most unfailing of our season-marks, sky-flower, faithful through a thousand years. Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

La muerte es el fin de toda angustia, el más tranquilo sueño, el eterno descanso. El que ha gozado debe retirarse de la vida como huésped satisfecho; el que ha sufrido, recibir gustoso a la que viene a cortar el hilo de sus desaventuras. [pp.150]

No hay tiempo para el presente. Vamos del pasado al futuro, que nuevamente se vuelve pasado: ¡ así es la vida!

Te has parado alguna vez a contar las olas? —me preguntó de repente. —¿Contar las olas? No. ¡Vaya absurdidad! ¿Qué sentido tiene contar algo que no termina nunca? —Tampoco el tiempo termina nunca y no dejamos de contarlo.

La única situación en la que no se tienen problemas ni incertidumbres se da cuando estás muerto.

Of all the questions you might want to askabout angels, the only one you ever hearis how many can dance on the head of a pin.No curiosity about how they pass the eternal timebesides circling the Throne chanting in Latinor delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earthor guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge.

We're all going to die. And we have that in common with all these great men of the past that are staring down at us.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? MARK 8:36

Heaven gives us hope—hope for today and hope for the future. No matter what we're facing, we know it is only temporary, and ahead of us is Heaven.

The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ . . .That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening . . .We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ!

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.

You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions, you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.

The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, "I never knew you. Away from Me" [Matthew 7:23 NIV].

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear.